British Columbia

This is a placeholder for our 2015 tour to British Columbia which will include, Calgary, The Rockies, Banff, Vancouver, Vancouver Island & Prince Rupert. Photo Carl Chapman - Placeholder until we are eye to eye with a grizzly!!...

Namibia – Africa Travelog – Part 1 Windhoek to Harnes

When your daughter decides that her heart lies in Africa surrounded by big cats at the age of 19 you smile sweetly, take deep breaths and let her embark on a journey for her summer holidays that you think may be a once in a lifetime experience. But just the once was never enough for our Vicky. So when she graduated in 2011 and she headed to Africa again we thought we had better consider going and exploring Africa or at least as much of Namibia that we could in three weeks and also visit where our intrepid explorer had got to. This is the image that one of Vicky's friends took that hooked us in and the stories that came back about taking lion cubs for walks.           Mrs G is nothing if not fastidious in planning trips abroad but in this case she felt she needed some serious help and we...

British Museum

A favourite place in London. I use any excuse to divert a journey home through The Great Court. I remember visiting site when the great court was a muddy pile and clambering down ladders to get into it. The specialist modelling group at Foster + Partners went through many an iteration on the panelisation to get the geometric, structural and aesthics successfully balanced off against each other. One of the great spaces of London.   ...