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View of cruise ship partly blocked by hedge

Cycling for freedom during coronavirus

During a time of shrunken horizons, cycling is escape and freedom exploring a city of strange wonder.

July 15, 2020 in Glasgow, Psychogeography.
3D visualisation of Bruce Report: blocks of buildings, green spaces and bridge over river

Unbuilt Glasgow: a city nearly lost

Can a city make you sad and die young? Can a city destroy itself? How Glasgow’s unique mysterious curse was born from a city nearly lost.

October 23, 2019 in Glasgow, History, Psychogeography.
Aircraft carrier in docks

Firth of Forth: walking the coast of witches and war

War machines, tav avoiders, climate change. If you want to escape politics, walking along the Firth of Forth is not the place to do it.

July 30, 2019 in History, Psychogeography, Scotland.
Old black and white photo of people boarding a tram in Glasgow

Nightwalking, Junkfood Junction and the future King of Scotland

Nightwalking’s early subversive reputation, a night stroll down Junkfood Junction and meeting the future King of Scotland.  

January 3, 2018 in Glasgow, History, Psychogeography, Scotland.
Mosaic of two-faced figure, the god Janus, with opened and closed books and words future and past

Protected! The goddesses of explorers and psychogeographers

Good news for the endless road walkers, night prowlers, urban explorers, psychogeographers, explorers, threshold stalkers. We have our gods and goddesses and we are protected!

November 7, 2017 in History, Psychogeography, Travel.
Ruins of Cambusnethan House - windows, walls and blue sky

Crawford Priory Revisited: abandoned ruins and golf balls

A return visit to the enigmatic ruins of Crawford Priory yields family memories, new secrets and golf balls.

April 17, 2017 in Psychogeography, Scotland.
Two red brick pillars in front of a tunnel underneath a railway line

New Year / Old Year: Remains of an abandoned industrial estate

Urban exploration: wandering the remains of an abandoned industrial estate in search of graffiti art.

January 3, 2017 in Glasgow, Psychogeography, Scotland.
Burnt out car in Glasgow: In our city…torched are the final scene in wind-borne minor noir dramas.

Urban remains: lost worlds, canals and abandoned pubs

Urban exploration by bike: in Glasgow exploring abandoned pubs and the urban remains of a forgotten world of the Forth & Clyde Canal.

November 22, 2016 in Glasgow, History, Psychogeography, Scotland.
The Argyll Stone and St Conval's Chariot

Glasgow-London: two cities, two stones and a lot of myths

A cycle ride to the outer edges of Glasgow finds stones, myths, floating saints, plane twitchers and echoes of one of London’s strangest landmarks.

March 16, 2016 in Glasgow, History, London, Psychogeography, Scotland.
Life on the Yangon Circular Railway: Detail of illustration by Julia Stone, Elsewhere Journal

A Journey Elsewhere: City Life on the Yangon Circular Railway

Yangon: an account of a slow and fascinating train journey through an extraordinary city is published in Elsewhere: A Journal of Place.

March 7, 2016 in Myanmar (Burma), Psychogeography, Travel.

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