Category: Travel

  • I was in London for something or other yesterday, Shoreditch to be precise. That meant a walk from Liverpool Street Tube, through the Square Mile to Shoreditch.  It was funny to watch how, in the space of 400 yards, I walked through a sea of pinstripe suits, shiny chrome (and disappearing taxes). Then passing through some…

  • That's it for a week or so, the annual Easter pilgrimage to St Ives is about to commence. This time with Will in tow. See you in a week or so.

  • After months and months languishing on Sky + I finally watced Marcel Theroux's 'In Search of Wabi Sabi'.   http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-6916115281561390843&hl=en&fs=true In case you can't be bothered to watch or follow the links, Wabi Sabi is a japanese theory to aesthetics and transience as the touchstone of beauty. Now I think the basics of that are worth…