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Diaryif you’re staying in a castle, fishing comes on the agenda. what, oh what, a spot.
if you’re staying in a castle, fishing comes on the agenda. what, oh what, a spot.
diary | 27 aug 2014 | tagged: adventures · cairngorms
family holiday #1. seven hours on the train, hire a car, and… the cairngorms. not often you get to stay in a castle.
diary | 24 aug 2014 | tagged: adventures · cairngorms
panto at the hackney empire is great. a joyous riot of pure entertainment.
diary | 07 dec 2013 | tagged: adventures
and don’t get me started on the dog looking over the castle battlements, surrounded by sun-rise photoshoot brides.
diary | 09 sep 2013 | tagged: photo · adventures · santorini
…sunsets and their aftermath doubly so.
diary | 09 sep 2013 | tagged: adventures · santorini
…and when not eating honey, let it be octopus.
diary | 09 sep 2013 | tagged: adventures · santorini
to the greek island of santorini, to sit on the edge of a volcano crater with a week’s supply of yoghurt and honey…
diary | 09 sep 2013 | tagged: adventures · santorini
pub on the park at 9pm, dunwich beach 6.45am. 120 miles, from brixton. surreal isn’t the word. a snake of red lights, forever there for the overtaking, yet always stretching as far as you can see.
it’s now a bit of an institution, and thats a good thing. as well as the great semi-organisation from southwark cyclists, there were pubs staying open late, hot food at the ready; cycle shops setting up bacon buttie pit-stops en-route; cheering locals (whether pillars of the community or bemused yoofs just out of the pub); even a man in dressing gown at 5am, stroking his cat and telling cyclists the route goes left. all really quite special.
diary | 21 jul 2013 | tagged: adventures
to the sea, week two: brixton-bexhill. if you ride, this is the one. more miles than brighton, but such better form – you hit countryside and the right kind of hills much sooner, and importantly, instead of croydon. chose bexhill partly to ramp up the miles, but mostly because i wanted to see the modernist delight of the de la warr pavilion. it lived up to expectation, like stepping into an alternative future. even better, in the pavilion, the current gallery show is mark lecky’s fabulous ‘The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things’, which has the windowlicker VHS sleeve as one of its items. nuff said.
diary | 14 jul 2013 | tagged: adventures
struck out into the sun atop the glorious bike with earpiece directing me to brighton. after wind and rain for what should have been summer so far, it was truly revelatory to be swooshing through the countryside, summer air flowing past as the roads dipped and peaked through the stunning countryside. oh, blue sky, oh, sun!
diary | 07 jul 2013 | tagged: adventures
i could post pictures of india endlessly - series upon series of market sellers, colonial hill stations and the narrow gauge railways leading up to them, school kids running around, food, food, food and more food; even just starting to construct a list brings on a paralysis of choice.
that all said, such concerns start to pale against the memory of visiting this lady, my wife’s one remaining relative in india. the match-maker for my mother-in-law’s parents, no less. such a testament to life in a country so full of life: a hundred years old, memories clear, mind sharp, still in touch with the family diaspora, and such a sense of humour. simply inspirational.
diary | 25 feb 2013 | tagged: adventures · south india · photo
for such a painted-up country, there’s a surprising lack of graffiti… that was until kochi, which is positioning itself as an art destination and is now home to a load of absolute stand-out work, gradient-shards of neon floating around stencilled birds. vexta was the tag, and now home i discover thats not a kochi local but an australian brought in by the biennale. might not fit the touring narrative quite as nicely, but inspiring for all. turns out, there’s a really nice documentation film: https://vimeo.com/61270585
diary | 18 feb 2013 | tagged: adventures · south india
to drive a main route india is to see this block-font scrolling past ad infinitum. i would see it in my sleep, outlined in day-glo.
diary | 18 feb 2013 | tagged: adventures · south india
thats not a billboard, its a house. any surface next to a road gets painted up, advertising political parties or cement.
diary | 18 feb 2013 | tagged: adventures · south india · photo
train doors open. so great. hours spent just watching india go by, field of view unencumbered, wind on your face. but something else here, one of the great contradictions of india for me: the women so sartorially attuned in a riot of saris and decoration, the men unthinking in ill-tailored western beige.
diary | 18 feb 2013 | tagged: adventures · south india
advertising cement is massive in india, and the tag-lines are great: ‘as strong as family bonds’.
diary | 18 feb 2013 | tagged: adventures · south india
2000 kilometers on road and rail around southern india: so much was seen side-scrolling, out of the window. entry number one needs to anchor us in india, so cue the ox-cart.
diary | 18 feb 2013 | tagged: adventures · south india
all in all, it can all feel a bit disney-like. but there was one temple, a little of the beaten track, that was as if the gods of graphic design injected all their worth before fleeing in the face of the gaudy onslaught.
diary | 14 feb 2013 | tagged: adventures · south india · photo
