Field Recordings

  • There’s also lots of forest around Bad Zell. Bad Zell Forest

  • Bischofshofen is a scenic mountain town in the Pongau region of Land Salzburg. The Catholic school I was visiting there…

  • Alexanderplatz was the old centre of East Berlin, known for its World Clock, and home of the Centrum department store…

  • I’ve made clear how much I loathe Hallstatt in my other post. It starts at the ferry. To access the…

  • I was in Vienna on Mayday a few years ago. The Prater funfair is supposed to be the place to…

  • Of the major train interchanges in Germany, Hamburg Hauptbahnhof is one of the most pleasant. Hannover is always really stressful,…

  • Bratislava’s Old Town is similar to Prague’s, but smaller and not crowded with tourists, so generally a more pleasant experience…

  • Gommern is a small town in the former East Germany. Not much happens there, even the German Wikipedia doesn’t have…

  • Being sent to visit schools means you often go to places you would never have had the idea to visit…

  • The Kiel Canal joins the North Sea at Brunsbüttel to the Baltic at Kiel, and is one of the major…

  • High up in the Kalkalpen National Park.

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

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

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

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