Other Places I Visited in 2024
24 January 2025 | Places
My 2024 travels featured walking in Australia (The Three Capes Track in Tasmania) and England (The Thames Path). My English travels also took me to that very popular tourist county of Cornwall. Before arriving in England I visited three interesting African countries: ...
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Thames Path Statues
24 October 2024 | Culture
It’s a British National Trail, the only one to follow a river and definitely a river worth following. From its source west of Oxford it runs for 184 miles (294km) through the Cotswolds, to Oxford and on past iconic English names like Abingdon, Henley and Windsor and t...
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From Source to Sea, walking the Thames Path with Tom Chesshyre
22 January 2024 | Media
Last year I spent three days walking the first 90-odd km of the Thames Path, the 215 mile (346km) walking route along the Thames River from its source in Gloucestershire to Oxford and on down through London to the Thames Barrage and the sea. I stayed at the very ordin...
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Art in London – Ai Weiwei to Warhol, African chaos to ‘bad, but good’ in Japan
8 August 2023 | Living
▲ A jumble of Lego
I’ve certainly been catching up with art in London, starting with the Ai Weiwei Making Sense exhibit at the Design Museum in Kensington – too late if you haven’t already seen it, it’s closed. There’s a fascinating linkage between huge numbers of ...
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The Plane Trees of London
4 January 2023 | Living
◄ Plane trees in Prince’s Gardens, London
Sitting in the outside dining area of Ognisko, a wonderful Polish restaurant on Exhibition Rd in London, just across from the Science Museum, we were admiring the 21 notable plane trees in Prince’s Garden, well 21 mature on...
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