Cycling for freedom during coronavirus
During a time of shrunken horizons, cycling is escape and freedom exploring a city of strange wonder.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
