Postcard of the Week: The Royal Palace, Madrid
One of my favourite past-times is losing myself in a daydream inside palaces, castles and stately homes. I start to imagine myself gliding through opulent room upon opulent room, […]
Postcard of the Week: Map of Southern Africa
I can’t claim to have been to even a tiny percentage of the area shown on this illustrated map covering Namibia, Botswana, South Africa and Lesotho. I have merely […]
Postcard of the Week: King’s College, Cambridge
I visited Cambridge for the first time last December, during the academic Christmas holidays, and was very disappointed to find out that both King’s College and its chapel were […]
Postcard of the Week: Madrid
My first Postcard of the Week from Madrid! I’ve been here 10 days now and so far it’s entailed: settling into my new flat, starting my new job, meeting […]
Postcard of the Week: Singapore
Singapore was the last leg of a 4-month, 7 country trip around South-East Asia on my gap year back in 2008. We only spent 3 or […]
Postcard of the Week: Punting in Cambridge
In between Christmas and New Year’s I went up to spend the weekend in Cambridge. The last time I visited Cambridge I was about 4-years-old and, as shown in […]
Postcard of the Week: The Scottish Highlands
Last week I headed up to the beautiful Ardverikie Estate in the Scottish Highlands with about 13 others, for five days of fresh highland air, an escape from the […]
Postcard of the Week: Keswick in the Lake District
This weekend just past I travelled up to the Lake District in the north of England, to Keswick, a town previously unknown to me entirely. Having grown […]