Journey to a chapel of war and hope
A journey to Orkney and a story of why Italian prisoners of war built a chapel on a Scottish island that became a symbol of hope.
Walking 450 miles to freedom
In 1918, my grandfather and seven other British officers escaped from a Turkish prisoner of war camp. That was the easy part. They then faced 450 miles of deadly heat, hostile terrain and trigger-happy brigands.
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!
Postcards from the Loire
Wildlife, chateau, borders – notes from walking one of France’s most beguiling rivers.
A lost world at Crewe Station
Late Sunday night and Crewe Station is empty and deserted. But there is a lost world here, filled with the ghosts from a bygone era of variety theatre.
Is this Britain’s most beautiful (and haunted) beach?
Ssandwood-bayandwood Bay in north Scotland is famous for its remote beauty. It’s also a place of legend, shipwrecks, fugitives and ghosts.
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.
Boats, banks & Kipling: Journey on the Ayeyarwady River to Mandalay
The river of lost footprints. The road to Mandalay. The river that brings blessings to the people. If nothing else the Ayeyarwady (or Irrawaddy) River is evoked by a great line, and Kipling’s poem of nostalgia and longing.
The drama of the Forth Railway Bridge
Fife is rife with ruins, green fields and contradiction. Its dramatic entrance hall, the Forth Bridge, somehow encapsulates much of its inner nature, except perhaps for the matter of golf.
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