Posts under ‘travel’

Last bank holiday Monday some friends and I went to "the original seaside", as Margate is now billing itself, to see the new Turner Contemporary. It looks a bit shed-like when you exit the station, but because it's the same height as the other buildings around it, it doesn't seem intrusive (it actually looks lower [...]

Even though I didn't get to Brighton last week, I did go to Bognor Regis on Saturday. It's not the most exciting place in the world to visit, and there was probably a lot more going on down the coast in Brighton, where Pride was taking place, but Bognor has its charm, and its interesting corners, and it's not a bad place to spend a day mooching around.

One good thing about the Shabby Seaside Appreciation Society us that it gives me a good excuse to finally get around to visiting loads of places I've been meaning to see for ages. A couple of weekends ago, I jumped on a train to Southend on a gloriously sunny day and had a lovely time. [...]

Any time you hear mention of Arundel, people always mention the castle, but it's possible to have a lovely day there without once stepping foot inside the castle grounds. If you walk up the hill, follow the wall around, past the strange little ornamented wooden building… …and past the cathedral, which is surprisingly huge for [...]

Last Saturday the Shabby Seaside Appreciation Society went to Canvey. This man-made island at the end of the Thames estuary in Essex was the subject of a recent documentary (which I've not seen yet, but which you can read about in a recent post on Fantastic Journal). It was quite a grim day to visit [...]

Last Saturday I spent the day at the seaside in Margate with the Shabby Seaside Appreciation Society. The day didn't start off at its best — our excitement at getting one of the new fast-track Javelin trains at St. Pancras soon dwindled when we found ourselves an hour behind schedule due to "a death on [...]

Welcome to fabulous Las Vegas It's a bit of a Circus A new Frontier Keep an eye out for white tigers, dragons, and flying horses Westward Ho! See more Vegas pics here. All my USA 2000-01 pics are here

Photos from the second big tour of north America, late 2000-early 2001. Tracks on the Chicago El. Even back then I was struck by the colours and shapes of urban abstracts. Chicago skyscraper. The bottom half was a church, the tower housed offices. Harmony House, next to a police station (one for the Invisibles readers), [...]

A selection of photographs from my first trip around the USA almost a decade ago. artist Jason Hoelscher at the original Korova Milk Bar, Lower East Side, NYC lines and stripes on Brooklyn Bridge, NYC taken the day we went to see Noisegate at the Brooklyn Anchorage [reviewed years later, here] I think maybe only [...]