Famous inmate

Reading Prison (or Reading Gaol as it was known then) is one of the prisons where Oscar Wilde served his … More

Still Water

From the cells on the top floor of one wing, inmates could glimpse the Thames from their windows. ArtAngel used … More

I’ll tell you more about Reading Prison next week, this week I want to bring a current exhibit to your … More

When ArtAngel takes over a venue as a gallery, they seek to combine existing and specially commissioned pieces in the … More

Between the closure of the Young Offenders Institution at Reading Prison and the opening of the ArtAngel exhibition, nothing was … More

When I was in Philadelphia I visited the Eastern State Penitentiary. The prison in Reading (Berkshire) was built around similar … More

Over the long weekend at the end of May, I travelled to Belgium for another skydiving training camp, this time … More

We usually think of the south coast of Europe being on the Mediterranean, however I think the formal start of … More

As I mentioned last week, Alvor has a lovely beach which we could see in the distance when skydiving. We … More

A little to the West of Faro is the town of Alvor. It is a great holiday destination, with things … More