Life's about experiences. These are mine.
For my birthday in the summer of 2023, I was given a Raspberry Pi Camera, which, very much Heath Robinson style, I fixed to the conservatory window looking out onto our back garden. The camera takes a snapshot every hour, night and day, so I end up with a lot of images that are basically …
On a blustery but mild New Year’s Day we set off to Reading University to do a short art trail based around four globes from The World Reimagined initiative. This was a national art education project to explore the “Transatlantic Slave Trade and its impact on all of us.” 103 globes were created, and seven …
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At some point during my travels, I seem to have become fascinated by pedestrian crossing lights and have started to “collect” them, well photograph them, at any rate. These are things that most people probably walk by without giving too much of a second glance to, but now I actively seek them out. I think …
As I was navigating the public transport required to get to today’s destination, I marvelled at all the posters and electronic signs advertising what’s on in London. It was a dazzling array of events, and I thought once more how lucky we are to live so close to such a beautiful city with so much …
One final post from the holiday. Here are all the pictures from the trip all in one place. I think that they give a great overview of a holiday in New England.
It’s the end of the holiday and here are a few things that didn’t neatly fit anywhere else in the previous blogs. Number Plates Over the 12 days we were in New England we travelled a total of 1,241 miles in our ugly Ford Bronco. An average of only 124 a day over the ten …
The last days are always difficult to fill, particularly when your flight doesn’t leave until 10 pm. Fortunately, we had a cunning plan, which was to take a boat trip out into the Gulf of Maine in search of wildlife. We’re not going to need a bigger boat We shared this journey with about 98 …
We continued our journey back south today heading towards the final destination of Boston and home but we had one final overnight stop before we fly. Salem When we were working out our trip the company that we were booking with (hat tip The American Road Trip Company) suggested an overnight stop in Salem. Of …
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Today we drove back down the road we’d taken from our emergency hotel a couple of days ago and on to the town of Kennebunkport – the only place in this area that hasn’t stolen the name from the UK! A Long Drive It was a long drive today of over five hours, mainly on …
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I’ll probably get in trouble for choosing the picture above as it isn’t really representative of the day we had in Acadia National Park but it was taken there. Read on for more… Park Loop Road We arrived at the park at about 8:30, which turned out to be a good move as the stopping …