Monday, 8 March 2010
Sunday, 7 March 2010
Cornwall - day 3 - St Ives
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| bedroom curtain |
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| Porthminster Beach, St Ives |
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| basket weaver |
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| St Ives |
a cloud moves across the window's glass - everyone at breakfast agrees the orange juice is the best they've ever tasted - the tidiest Sports Direct - a single carriage to St Ives - so many sandy beaches - old, piratical streets - a modest Tate with a stunning Reclining Nude - looping the town until nearly all the restaurants are closed and T is boiling over - photography, waiting for the sunset
Saturday, 6 March 2010
Cornwall - day 2 - Porthcurno to Land's End
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| Porthcurno beach rocks |
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| Minack Theatre |
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| landmarks |
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| Land's End, Cornwall |
a giant sponge for a bed - great coffee, too many sugar lumps - amazing old shop fronts - impressive new gallery and cafe of course - bus to Porthcurno - the ancient Greek theatre - ruined, snow crippled succulents - on the coastal path: squat vegetation and vertical stones - Land's End as a ghost town - just in time for fish and chips in Penzance, closing at 6:30!
Friday, 5 March 2010
Cornwall - day 1 - Penzance, St Michael's Mount
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| breakfast on the Riviera Express |
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| the blue Abbey hotel |
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| Jubilee Pool |
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| causeway to the Mount |
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| St Michael's Mount castle |
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| on the roof |
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| transport to the island |
in limbo on the sleeper train, looking down on the world - charmed by early morning Penzance - pointed to our hotel, The Abbey - our suite is ready and breakfast is laid - "I'll have egg... sausage... mushroom... And do you have a tah-may-to?" - the daily swimming group by the white wall - plastic covered hills - perfectly shaped St Michael's Mount - not much to see until the tour starts - a mummified cat from Egypt, a Gainsborough, a Shogun mask with a feather moustache - the causeway covers over again
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
Strangely Warmed by Andrew Rumsey
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| Strangely Warmed by Andrew Rumsey |
T's photo of Brighton Pier has been used for a new book: Strangely Warmed by Andrew Rumsey. Andrew came across it looking at The Sunday Telegraph online competition, and it was exactly the image he had in mind!
Strangely Warmed on Amazon.com
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Mersea Island, Essex - East Mersea
a kind offer from Jeff and Clare finds us on Mersea via Chelmsford - Wivenhoe dead end brings out the sat-nav - low road over the mud to Mersea - winter fields - Cudmore Grove County Park - olive green dog walkers - mud in all its forms, colours and consistency - lapwings, shelduck, wigeon - corrosive wind - shingle, eroding orange cliff, huge caravan parks - car as sanctuary
Mersea Island, Essex - West Mersea
bumpy lane to nowhere - esplanade of beach huts - The Company Shed - Art Cafe for a warming latte as the sleet begins - closed museum - a stained glass spotted flounder in the church of St Peter & St Paul - a frontier land of mud - beached house boats at the end of long boardwalks - 125 sugar almond beach huts - a warm car home, caught in the traffic
Mersea Island, Essex - The Company Shed
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| The Company Shed, Mersea |
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| behind the curtains, the oysters await their fate |
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| The Company Shed counter |
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| down to earth decor at The Company Shed |
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| help yourself to glasses |
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| oysters, scallops, fishcakes at The Company Shed |
oilcloth covered tables - fishermen & dahlings - trays of oysters behind an old shower curtain - "help yourself to a glass from the shelves" - surely too cold for oysters, or is that just an excuse? - a rather good link...
Monday, 1 February 2010
Blogging for Britain
It's been work, work, work for us, though one of us may be working a little harder than the other. The funds are being replenished as we prepare for our 2010 adventures. In the mean time we've found some fellow explorers of Britain to help inspire us onwards.
The Lost Promenade looks at one of our other passions: Britain's seaside resorts. The more faded, the better.
British Landscapes follows Derek Fogg's photographic journey around Britain. He's been to some great places and got the photos to prove it.
The Lost Promenade looks at one of our other passions: Britain's seaside resorts. The more faded, the better.
British Landscapes follows Derek Fogg's photographic journey around Britain. He's been to some great places and got the photos to prove it.
Monday, 18 January 2010
Outdoor Photography Island Journal Pt 5
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
A little island recap
I've been filling in some of the gaps on our journey. If you click on the label "little islands" you'll see some of the quasi-islands or as some would have it, rocks, that we've glimpsed, sailed by or stood on.
Friday, 1 January 2010
T's favourite island moments of 2009
1. Jura
We failed to climb a Pap and we failed to complete Evans walk, but we couldn't fail to fall in love with this incredible island. We saw our first adder, our first butterwort, and our second otter.
2. Muck
Free of light pollution, the sky was so dark and the stars so bright that they looked like diamonds. The bunkhouse was heated by a Rayburn stove, and we ate our own body weight in ginger biscuits.
3. Tiree
We walked to the supermarket across a bay so vast and empty that it felt as though we might fall into the sky. We stayed on a farm where we experienced new life emerging, right on our doorstep.
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