Tag: Travel
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Jungle Adventure
Lt Col Percy Fawcett pictured in 1911. One of the many nice things about volunteering in an Oxfam bookshop is that you come across all sorts of hidden gems and unknown books which you wouldn’t normally seek out. Exploration Fawcett, by Lt Col PH Fawcett, is one such book. This particular volume, a pale green,…
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Canals, slaves and railways!
The remains of the lock gates reflected in the water. Question: How do you boost your town’s wealth and trade when there’s no decent road network linking you to the rest of Britain, but you’re only a mile and a half from the sea? Answer: You build a canal… And that’s just what the good citizens…
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Love Among the Butterflies
One of my daughters took this photograph in the museum at Plymouth. The butterflies on display are not from Margaret Fountaine’s collection, but I like the picture! Margaret Fountaine was a feisty Victorian Englishwoman of independent means who travelled the world for 50 years collecting butterflies, and was totally unfazed by the unaccustomed situations and…
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Saturday Snapshots In A ‘Royal’ Village
This week’s Saturday Snaphots were taken in Newton Regis, which claims to be the most northerly village in Warwickshire, and if you think they don’t look very seasonal that’s because they were taken back in April, when my elder daughter and I were testing her SatNav by deliberately getting lost… I love stumbling across places…
The Book Trunk 