Travel

  • While I was in Sydney, I went for the day to visit my friend Zoe in the inland mountain town…

  • When I was in Sydney I met up with my friend Vanessa Berry, who writes Mirror Sydney (in both blog…

  • While in Sydney I met up with my friend Emma Davidson who runs Take Care zine distro, and we had…

  • To be honest I wasn’t fussed about the centre of Sydney. I was staying close to the harbour, but it…

  • MONA was one of my main reasons for visiting Tasmania. It’s basically in an underground bunker like a Bond villain’s…

  • One of my main reasons to go to Tasmania was the MONA art museum. Because it’s pretty much a Bond…

  • Hobart is the capital of Tasmania, and one of the oldest cities in Australia- lots of old buildings. Even by…

  • Here’s Australia continued- my trip to Tasmania and the pretty seaside town of Sandy Bay, hometown of Errol Flyn. If…

  • Fitzroy Gardens is a park in the centre of Melbourne with a model village, lovely botanical conservatory and some fairly…

  • There are of course loads of great record shops in Melbourne. However the problem is that most of the stock…

  • Sticky Institute is a Melbourne institution- a zine shop in the basement of Flinders Street train station that’s been there…

  • In Australia, charity shops are called op shops, short for opportunity shops and Melbourne has really great ones

  • Melbourne was a boom town in the 50s and 60s with people wanting to leave post-war Europe (and also places…

  • Here’s some photos from around Melbourne in Sept 2018 (yes, it has taken me that long to sort them out),…

  • Here’s a few photos from St Kilda in Melbourne. It’s a fancy coastal suburb of Melbourne filled with interwar bungalows,…

  • Last year I went on a trip to Australia, with a stop-off in Singapore along the way. I’ve finally started…

  • I was tidying up some old photos and found some from my trip to Denmark in 2015 that I never…

  • Here’s some photos from a while back in Saint-Céneri-le-Gérei a beauty spot near where my mum lives in Northern France.…

  • It’s very unlikely I or anyone else will be travelling much this summer (I’ve not been more than a mile…

  • In the fuzzy zone between Christmas and New Year I scanned a lot of old negatives. I’ve recently started going…

  • I realised I still had a few photos from February in Austria left unposted, so here they are. Strange to…

  • A couple of years ago I won some plane tickets to Japan, and went inter-railing around Western Japan with my…

  • Amstetten is the most extremely average place in Austria. It’s a largish commuter town in between Linz and Vienna. You…

  • I was supposed to be back in Austria right now, running more school workshops. Obviously that’s not happening now, due…

  • Austria Post does an excellent fixed price box within Europe which is extremely handy when you’re travelling around for weeks…

  • Here’s some assorted photos from Deutschlandsberg. It’s a very ordinary small Austrian town near Graz. Although it’s a pretty and…

  • My next work assignment was in Deutschlandsberg, a small town at the foot of the Koralm Alps, near the Slovenian…

  • While I was in Graz I went to a show at the art museum. I’ve been in the cafe many…

  • En route to my next work assignment in Deutschlandsberg near the Slovenian border I stopped off in Graz overnight. I’ve…

  • To travel in between Vienna and Graz, until the never-ending tunnel under the mountains is finished later this decade, you…

  • Fertőd is the village in Hungary just across the border from Pamhagen. It has a huge Baroque palace there (which…

  • A lot of small towns in Austria have a Mardi Gras carnival, and they often organise them to be on…

  • My next work assignment was in a small village called Pamhagen on the Austria-Hungary border. The main hotel in the…

  • Győr station is really quite stylish in a 1950s way. I took most of these photos while I was waiting…

  • There were a lot of decrepit old wooden windows in Győr old town. Here’s some of the various designs of…

  • The Danube at night