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32 places visited between 2008 and 2026

February 2026 London Inside London's most iconic shops - the Harrods Food Halls, Liberty's Tudor building and Fortnum & Mason - plus Chinatown stops and honest impressions.
September 2017 Brighton The Color Run on Brighton seafront: foam, powder paint and the happiest 5K down Madeira Drive, September 2017.
November 2015 Oxford Oxford in November 2015, spent mostly indoors: skulls and skeletons under the glass roof of the Natural History Museum, then the packed cases of the Pitt Rivers.
October 2015 Leicester October 2015 at the National Space Centre in Leicester: a Soviet craft stamped CCCP, a gold-visored astronaut statue and a British Aerospace badge.
September 2015 Old Sarum Skydive A 15,000 foot tandem skydive at Old Sarum with GoSkydive, booked as Inga's birthday present: the nerves, the freefall and the instructor with jokes.
July 2015 Gloucester A July 2015 afternoon in Gloucester: the cathedral and its cloisters, mosaics underfoot, a tall ship at the docks and the ruins of St Oswald's Priory.
April 2014 Portsmouth Portsmouth Historic Dockyard in April 2014: HMS Victory's gun deck, HMS Warrior at her berth, and a walk through the submarine HMS Alliance in Gosport.
April 2014 Whipsnade Zoo ZSL Whipsnade Zoo in April 2014: free-roaming maras, white rhinos on the hillside, a brown bear in the long grass, and a bird and butterfly finale.
December 2013 Woburn Safari Park Woburn Safari Park in December 2013: eland and white rhino from the car, Amur tigers in the winter sun, and a great grey owl meeting Inga nose to beak.
July 2012 Torquay Torquay from the water in July 2012: the Livermead seafront, a rainbow of beach huts, a breakwater lighthouse, one rusty trawler and a bird in the ropes.
July 2012 Eden Project The Eden Project in July 2012: bubble-wrap biomes in an old Cornish clay pit, a rainforest indoors, strange waxy flowers and a giant made of scrap.
June 2012 Isle of Wight A June 2012 day on the Isle of Wight: across the Solent with Wightlink, the brick arches of Quarr Abbey, wallabies, a kookaburra and clifftop paths.
June 2012 Betws-y-Coed A wet June 2012 morning in Betws-y-Coed with Dileep's brother: the Gateway to Snowdonia welcome sign, the park boundary marker, and honest Welsh rain.
June 2012 Chester Zoo A June 2012 day at Chester Zoo: red river hogs at the waterhole, sparring zebras, a cheetah in the buttercups, and Sumatran tigers with name boards.
May 2012 Silchester Silchester in Hampshire, May 2012: walking the Roman walls of Calleva Atrebatum, the North Gate, St Mary's church and meadows full of dandelion clocks.
May 2012 Nottingham Nottingham in May 2012: hard hats in the sandstone caves, the Robin Hood statue beneath the castle walls, and Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem, England's oldest inn.
May 2012 Peak District A May 2012 day in the Peak District at Buxton: the lit chambers of Poole's Cavern, the climb through Grin Low woods, and the view from Solomon's Temple.
May 2012 Sheffield Sheffield in May 2012, with the Peak District on the doorstep: cycling the Monsal Trail near Bakewell, a riverside dale walk, and a moor-edge pub.
May 2012 Lake District A May 2012 week in the Lake District: out on Windermere by motorboat, a heritage railway, Beatrix Potter's world in Bowness, and the stones at Castlerigg.
June 2011 Greenwich The oldest photos on this whole site: our University of Greenwich years in 2006 and 2007, coursework on a laptop, a server rack and a late bowling night.
August 2010 Leeds Castle The day Dileep went down on one knee on the moat bridge at Leeds Castle in Kent, and a plane spelled out the question overhead. August 2010: she said yes.
July 2010 Canterbury Canterbury in July 2010: the painted heraldry of Christ Church Gate, the cathedral filling every viewfinder, and a summer when Kent felt like home turf.
July 2010 Dover Dover Castle in July 2010: working the switchboard in the secret wartime tunnels, then long grass beside the Roman pharos and St Mary-in-Castro.
July 2010 Bath Bath in July 2010: the green Great Bath and its statue-lined terrace, Bath Abbey next door, a sweeping Georgian curve and organ pipes under fan vaulting.
April 2010 Rochester An April 2010 day in Rochester with Dileep's parents: the cathedral's painted organ pipes, blossom on the green, and the view from the castle keep.
July 2008 Inchcolm Island Inchcolm in July 2008: a boat across the Firth of Forth to a mediaeval abbey, a climb up the tower, and wartime defences out on the headland.
July 2008 Glasgow Glasgow in July 2008: George Square bus stops, a walk along the Clyde past Bell's Bridge and the Clyde Arc, and the Armadillo on the waterfront.
March 2008 Windsor Windsor Castle in March 2008: a Royal Weddings exhibition poster by the castle walls, the Round Tower over its rock garden, and orange date stamps on every frame.
July 2026 Coed Tregib Story coming soon, we were here, and the write-up is on its way.
July 2026 Edinburgh Story coming soon, we were here, and the write-up is on its way.
July 2026 Stonehenge Story coming soon, we were here, and the write-up is on its way.
July 2026 Talley Story coming soon, we were here, and the write-up is on its way.