Last week I heard a clip of a recent speech made in Britain’s parliament in which the speaker referred repeatedly to ‘the other place’. To me, this sounded like a quaint euphemism for hell, and I wondered how a speech about parliamentary reform had become so apocalyptic. It turns out that ‘the other place’ is [...]
Archive for February, 2011
A politician by any other name
Posted in England on February 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Fly me to the nicest airport
Posted in architecture, England, Morocco, travel on February 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In early adulthood I had an ambivalent relationship with airports. Whilst my friends found them exciting, associating them with flying off to new adventures and far horizons, I wasn’t so keen. This was probably because I found the whole idea of overseas travel quite daunting as I’ve never been particularly good with diving itno the [...]
