Life's about experiences. These are mine.
For a while now I have been trying to get round all the museums in the Reading area and I realised that I hadn’t actually been and done a proper viewing at Reading Museum itself. I corrected that today with a long wander around its galleries. Outside The museum is housed within the Reading Town …
As I suggested in my last post on the murals of Bristol, those of Reading are a much more sober and corporate affair. In fact all three of the murals I am highlighting here have been commisioned by Reading Borough Council. Nobody is going to be painting their house with a night sky theme here. …
After a busy Christmas we decided to take a couple of days out for a break and headed to Bristol as it is easy to get to on the train from Reading. We had wanted to do a trail of some of the globes from The World Reimagined initiative as we’d seen in Reading but …
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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