Lancaster Gate

The tube station is named after the closest gate into Kensington Gardens which itself was named to honour Queen Victoria,…

A short walk to the tube

When asked for insider tips for travelling around London I always suggest people look at a roadmap as well as…

Updated to add that a week after I posted this, Sir Nicholas Winton died, aged 106. I join many in…

London doesn’t have one central station, it has multiple stations arranged around what was the edge of the city in…

The Great Western Railway was founded in the 1830s (corrected after the comment below!) to connect London and Bristol by…

The Great Western rail line has a set of 4 tracks: 1 set main out of London, 1 set main…

As I mentioned in February I have been working full time recently to earn some money to fund future adventures. After…

Heinrich Hoffmann was born in 1809 in Frankfurt and trained there as a doctor specialising in psychiatry; running Frankfurt’s lunatic asylum.…

Regular readers will know that I like, appreciate and share public art. I often wonder whether artists know how their…

The third temple we visited that day was Ditan (“Temple of Earth“) Park which is home to the Temple of…