Architect: Herzog & deMeuron Date: 2015 The Blavatnik School of Government in Oxford is on Walton Street in Jericho. I took these photos on an open day visit on 30 January 2016.
Continue reading →Welcome to my website. It’s mostly book reviews and accounts of my walking, hillwalking and mountaineering trips over the years, plus a mixed bag of other articles. If you want to get in touch please email me – I’m always pleased to hear from anyone who’s read anything here!
When I first started walking with my local LDWA group I wore boots because that was what I’d always worn. Scotland, the Lake District, Dartmoor, the Alps; all demanded solid footwear. For continental Europe in summer the boots might be … Continue reading →
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A Cycle Tour in Sweden and Norway, 1963 I recently retrieved from the back of a drawer a small notebook with a blue cover. I knew it was there – I’ve had it since 1963 – but I’ve only rarely … Continue reading →
Like most weeks on an HF Holiday at Glencoe the ascent of Ben Nevis was on the walks programme: this week I had been allocated the job of leading the walk. By breakfast on the day nine guests had signed … Continue reading →
In Autumn 2009 I took a ten-week class at OUDCE on “Modern Movements in Architecture: the Case of Oxford”. As part of this I had to write an assessment of a modern building of my choice. What follows in an extract from my full assignment. Some pictures are after the text.
Continue reading →The Ultimate Munro I can still fix the year exactly without going back to my log-book because it was the year I had my fiftieth birthday. I’d been wanting to do the Skye Munros but I’d decided that some of … Continue reading →
One dinner-time in a mountain hut The common room was full and every available seat occupied. Twelve or thirteen tables which can each comfortably seat six people had nine or ten squeezed in. Despite the crush I was feeling isolated: … Continue reading →
Alcohol and Alpine mountaineering The refuge is run by guardian Gérard. “He’s evil,” averred my guide Rob on our way up to the refuge. We’d been talking about this and that, and our conversation had touched on the topic of … Continue reading →
