by Ian | May 30, 2019 | England
Pooh Sticks – Hartfield and The Hundred Acre Wood I feel compelled to preface my story about the legendary bear of the Hundred Acre Wood by stating that our meeting was a surprising one that, in many ways, subverted my expectations. The account you are about to...
by Ian | Jun 5, 2019 | England
Zone 1’s easternmost borough has cleaned itself up a bit in the 21st century, though it once held the dubious distinction of being London’s filthiest and most crime filled district. Today, Spitalfields Market, lying on the west side of Commercial street, is a...
by Ian | Jun 9, 2019 | England, Europe
Annabelle Loon and His Winning Horse – A Not So Tall Tale From the Raven in Bath Every day feels like a quiet day at the Raven when you’re a regular. On holiday weekends the tourists flood in for a pint of local ale and that’s when Paul and Andy and Little Kev...
by Ian | Jun 10, 2019 | England
It was cloudy and rainy on my journey by city bus from Bath to Bristol. I was headed that day to Worcester where I’d be settling in for four days and, as I had been in Bath the previous four, and I needed to get myself to a more major port of call in order to begin...
by Ian | Jun 12, 2019 | England
Sauce, Secrecy, and Subversion in Worcester Every outcome in life is the culmination of innumerable small decisions, the good and bad or right and wrong of which bear themselves out over time. We can report the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of any event up to the minute, but the...
by Ian | Jun 15, 2019 | England
The Match – Imagining Peace in Liverpool The world collapsed on December 8th, 1980. After travelling up to Chester I decided to spend a day in nearby Liverpool and on the train ride up I spent most of my time learning about the city and thinking about what I should...
