Updated to add that a week after I posted this, Sir Nicholas Winton died, aged 106. I join many in … More
Tag: travel
Terminus
London doesn’t have one central station, it has multiple stations arranged around what was the edge of the city in … More
Great Western
The Great Western Railway was founded in the 1830s (corrected after the comment below!) to connect London and Bristol by … More
Pangbourne station
The Great Western rail line has a set of 4 tracks: 1 set main out of London, 1 set main … More
Commuting
As I mentioned in February I have been working full time recently to earn some money to fund future adventures. After … More
Struwwelpeter
Heinrich Hoffmann was born in 1809 in Frankfurt and trained there as a doctor specialising in psychiatry; running Frankfurt’s lunatic asylum. … More
El Lissitsky Allee
Regular readers will know that I like, appreciate and share public art. I often wonder whether artists know how their … More
Three temples in one day
The third temple we visited that day was Ditan (“Temple of Earth“) Park which is home to the Temple of … More
Another temple – Confucian this time
We came out of the Lama Temple and had a better look at the road the entrance was in. There … More
Around the Lama Temple
Yonghe Gate, originally the main entrance to it is now called Devaraja Hall (Hall of the Heavenly Kings), as there … More