What an abandoned mausoleum tells us about the passing of time
How an abandoned mausoleum tells us that a year many dread will pass to better times.
This isn’t England
This isn’t England. It’s a sub-Saharan dream. A cult film with characters drifting through a cinematic landscape of emptiness, rust, clutter and sea kale.
Gods, ruins and street life: photos from 2019
From Kolkata streets to the Shropshire hills, from watching gods to warships: a selection of my photos taken during 2019.
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.
Sunrise to sunset: walking Kolkata
Kolkata has been called a city of furious energy, the city of joy, a dying city. It is teeming, intense, broken and modern, old British empire and a stronghold of Bengali pride and culture. It’s crumbling and developing, wealthy and poor. It’s digested a tragic history but has a unique soul where it’s almost obligatory…
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.
Abandoned in Bedlam
Bedlam is at the end of the road, but that’s the least of it.
Grangemouth: the beauty in industry
It’s outdated, sprawling, industrial and CO2 spewing. Yet there’s also a strange beauty to be found walking by the Grangemouth Refinery.
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.
The mystery of a Scottish minister and a secret world of fairies
Robert Kirk’s research into fairy folklore is still important today. Was this 17th century Scottish minister punished for prying a little too closely into the world of fairies and elves?
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