An attempt to remap Europe and claim back the lost territories of the North Sea
Stavanger: Day one
I’ve been in Stavanger since Thursday afternoon. The city seems strangely deserted for the summer season and Tou Scene, where I am staying, closed the day I arrived. I’ve taken the solitude as an opportunity to work on my map of Doggerland, with which I have made significant progress. I did make it out of […]
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 […]
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 […]