Bike ride from Folkstone to Rye through Romney Marsh
Members of the Grosvenor Cycle Club (‘Bikes + Beer’) went for a day out on Sunday and cycled about 30+ miles from Folkstone > Hythe > St Mary in the Marsh > Lydd > Camber...
Category: Travel
Days out and walking in the country and by the seaside, visits to see friends in Europe and the US, and an amazing trip to the Mexican jungle and Mexico City
Margate’s winter seas – walking along the seafront in January
View east along Margate beach, taken standing on the edge of the tidal swimming pool. [Edited to add: apparently now classified as a ‘boating’ pool due to Health & Safety regs, although many swimmers choose...
Edward James in Mexico; history, context and legacy at West Dean College
I was lucky enough to be able to attend a free day long symposium about Edward James’ life in Mexico, that took place at West Dean College, 24 Oct 2015. Eight talks and presentations looked...
Wooden moulds used to create surreal concrete monument in Mexico
These wooden moulds were used to construct parts of El Castillo and Las Pozas; over 36 surrealistic structures were built in concrete over a 20 year period.
Monumental concrete circle on a lava field; Espacio Escultórico (Sculpture Space)
The Espacio Escultórico, in the south of Mexico City, is a monumental ring of 64 concrete wedges enclosing a large area of petrified lava. Each wedge stands 4m high and is arranged in four quarters around a raised circular platform,...
Posada El Castillo; Edward James’ home in Xilitla
Before heading up into the jungle of Las Pozas, we stayed for one night in El Castillo. Set high up in the Sierra Madre mountains, in the town of Xilitla (he-lit-la) the building is...
A thousand red pyramids in Mexico City
Tenzotle is a red volcanic rock that was used by the Aztecs, and later on the Spanish, to face their buildings. Red is still the dominant colour of buildings in Mexico City’s historic area, and the colours tenzotle red and...
Pyramids of the Sun and Moon; visiting the largest city of the pre-Columbian Americas
Teotihuacan is an archaeological site around 25 miles north-east of Mexico City. It contains some of the most architecturally significant Mesoamerican pyramids built in the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as the 3 mile long Avenue of the...
Concrete, Rocks, Bricks and Tiles in Chichester
A day trip to Chichester included a visit to one of my favourite places; Pallant House Gallery. Housing a permanent collection of Modern British art, it also has a calendar of temporary exhibitions.
A trip to the National Anthropology Museum, Mexico
This summer I was lucky enough to be part of the Architectural Association’s experimental concrete sculpture summer school (Las Pozas) in Mexico. These photos are from our morning at the Museo Nacional de Antropología in...
A virtual Treasure Trail; vintage raffle map of UK in Margate cafe
On a recent visit to Margate, we stopped at the Greedy Cow cafe. Not only are they v friendly and serve delicious home-made cakes and coffee, but there is great stuff to look at...
20,000 blue plastic bags used to create The Lotus Land sculpture
Whilst visiting New York, we took the super speedy East River Ferry from N. 6th St / N. Williamsburg up to Hunters Point South / Long Island City. Once there, we headed north to...
