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Like my friend, Lee Edward Fodi, I have a fascination with doors and doorways. Here are a few from my recent perambulations that caught my eye… Door within a door from a home in Ipswich, circa 1500.     Castle Argyll as seen through the doorway of the tower Dun Corr Bhile near Inveraray, Scotland.Continue reading “Portals…”

I spent a little time on the east coast of Scotland this year — my first visit to Aberdeen. It is a bustling city with the original structures all carved out of shimmering granite, but the new bits reminded me more of Calgary than anything else — filled with new construction and a booming oilContinue reading “Aberdeen Elephants & Castles”

As promised, a post on the Inveraray Highland Games. I had a most extraordinary time in Inveraray, mostly due to this lady here: Her name is Mae Wilcock, and she’s standing beside the little cottage she lets from the Duke of Argyll. She told me all about her life in Inveraray and gave me directionsContinue reading “Highland Games”

As I’ve confessed to everyone who will listen, in my head York is a small, sort of industrial city — Glasgow or Manchester-esque. Wrong. And I should have known better. York is a magnificent medieval town, not untouched by tourism, of course, but still lovely. I had such fun there, and walked my feet toContinue reading “York”

A second quick peek at this City of Cities. There is no other, really. I’ve talked about the food at the Borough Market before. Have you ever seen pakoras the size of these? The smells of this place are AMAZING! Another day, after exploring the Nightingale Museum, I think, I took a stroll through theContinue reading “Loving … and Leaving London”

I’ve never spent a full week in London before. Too expensive, mostly. But this year, I planned to meet my girl here a week after I arrived, so… well, instead of the research day trips I had planned, I ended up staying here. Every day I went for a little run around Battlesea Park andContinue reading “Loving London…part the first”

What a wonderful few days in a magic land. Today on the train I was drawing pictures and making lists of everything I could remember…the Blue Lagoon, Gull Foss, Geysir, volcanoes old and new, the [ahem] unique Phallological Museum, tooling around Reykjavik by bike and evidence of Vikings everywhere! All I can say is thatContinue reading “Góða nótt, Iceland…”

If you follow my twitter feed, you’ll know by the ‘where am I?’ post I put up today that I am not in Iceland any more. I flew all night and washed up on the shores of London, England this morning. More on that later, as I am not done with Iceland yet. I amContinue reading “Not Done Yet…Food Edition”

So, in the most volcanic nation on earth, what’s a good way to spend your time? How about watching water explode out of the earth at regular intervals? This geysir, whose name is Strokkur [they all have names, of course] is supposed to go off every five minutes or so, but I got lucky andContinue reading “Geysir”

My, this is a beautiful place. I’ve landed here almost by accident — more or less on a whim. En route to visit my girl and do more book-ish research in the UK, I found that a stop in Reykjavik would only cost me a further $100 or so [and about 11 extra hours ofContinue reading “Iceland”