Category Archives: Travel

Candid camera

By tom | Published: 17/07/2010

When I look through the viewfinder I am not taking a picture of something – but about something.

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The Shops of Torino

By tim | Published: 12/05/2010

Just back from a weekend in Turin to see the Shroud. I’m still mulling over the Sindone, so more on that at some point soon. One of the other astonishing sights in the city is the number of shops. We wandered on and on through the arcades and, at each turn, there was yet another [...]

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Sneak peek

By tim | Published: 23/04/2010

I couldn’t resist sharing these pics from my local, just-about-to-open station. It’s rather lovely inside if you like concrete, glass and all that (which I do). The overground orange livery is dandy too. If you’re in the Shoreditch area pop down to the station and speak nicely to the ticket inspectors – they have no [...]

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Honour and silk

By tim | Published: 21/04/2010

My wife Lesley Katon has an avian eye for wonderful second-hand books. No gloamy back room, unsorted pile or foxed cover can temper her pursuit of a homeless bibliographical gem. So it was yesterday, when she returned from our local bookshop – Dim & Distant – with this battered but beautiful piece. Published by Delpire in [...]

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Ghosts of Spain

By tom | Published: 12/04/2010

A series of physical and metaphysical journeys to exhume the ghosts that make Spain such an evocative experience.

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