Midsummer Solstice

At all gets dark from here on – until the winter solstice when the days get longer again. This visit to … More

Happy 90th Birthday!

Last Thursday, 21st April 2016, the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom turned 90 years old. There were many … More

I spent the night at the youth hostel within the Eden Project. Rather than dorms as is often the case with … More

This hasn’t suddenly changed to a food blog, it remains about my travels and I am still at the Eden … More

The Eden Project is home to many sculptures, these horses (one of wood the other of bronze) are at the … More

Inside the rainforest biome at the Eden Project, heating and humidification systems artificially create a rainforest climate. As I entered, my … More

The Eden Project has transformed a claypit into a vast garden featuring two biomes in which climates are reproduced to allow … More

The Eden Project is a botanical garden with a strong emphasis on education. It aims to showcase important plants and … More

My next journey is one I had been contemplating for a long time – sleeper train from Paddington to Cornwall, … More

The train tracks from St Pancras to the Channel Tunnel are known as HS1 (short for High Speed 1). They … More