An attempt to remap Europe and claim back the lost territories of the North Sea
Adventures in Doggerland: Day four
We had the kippers for breakfast, largely because I remember Elizabeth Taylor eating them in Conspirator, which had used shots of Cley windmill. As some of the previous days had seemed a little hurried, we chose to spend much of our time in Cley. In the marshes and then on the beach, we took quite […]
Adventures in Doggerland: Day three
After spending the night at Alessandra’s place in Stroud, we started early as she had a job photographing a kitchen unit for a company that manufactures induction cookers in Gloucester. I assisted her the best I could and we headed off on the long drive to Norfolk. We stopped at Kings Lynn, just because it […]
Polder atlas
While in England, I spent a weekend at my sister’s place in Peckham. On the Saturday, I took the chance to travel with the 63 to Kings Cross and have a look in the maps section of the British Library. Among a number of maps showing designs for the Fens – which is what I’d […]
Adventures in Doggerland: Day two
After breakfast we drove along the seafront to the pier. Southend claims to have the “longest pleasure pier in the world”. I’m not quite sure what the definition of a “pleasure pier” is, or indeed what was so pleasurable about Southend’s. That’s not to say we didn’t enjoy visiting it, but there was very little […]