Travel blog by a global nomad
Back in 1868, a group of Cambridge students asked Mrs Stevenson of Orchard House in nearby Grantchester if they may have tea under the blossoming fruit trees out back rather than on the front lawn. A trend was begun. In 1909 a budding poet called Rupert Brooke moved to Cambridge and began a bohemian way [...]
I may have a mixed reaction to living in my birthland, but I can’t deny that one of the nicest things Britain has to offer are strolls through the countryside. So with the weather looking a little uncertain, I set off to go to the nearby town of Grantchester, a 2 mile walk along the [...]
The heat wave in the UK right now (well, the southern part) seems to bring out the worst fashion sense in people! I heard on TV this was being blamed on the fact it is so rarely warm here that people don’t know how to dress, unlike their cousins on the continent… Now, I may [...]
Well, this is about as close to Royalty as I have got since, oooh, whenever I last wandered past Buckingham Palace! Not being much of a Royalist, this means little to me, but it does seem to mean something to the tourists! Since I am doing a short course instead, I am probably not getting much [...]
…not 24 hours after staggering out of Earls Court underground station with my bags and trundling the streets of Kensington, a student it executed outside that station! How close did I come to witnessing that horror?! Welcome to the big city
…a heatwave encases the city. Normally bleak, grey and cold, London is now turned into [...]
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