Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
Part two in my series on stone-age Orkney is on the neolithic burial chamber of Maeshowe. Fairy Mounds feature heavily in the folk lore of Britain and Ireland. The mounds are believed to be the dwelling place of fairies (or faeries), elves or the sidhe. Fairy favour could bring prosperity and happiness but woe betide [...]
Thousands of years ago in Britain people liked to erect giant stones in circles. Theories abound about how and why but no one is exactly sure. Was it religion? Was it science? Clearly it was a matter of some importance given that it would have taken considerable effort to achieve. Whatever the reason, the engineering [...]
British Museum exhibition on Babylon: Myth and Reality. In many ways Babylon is more an idea than a real place. There were other city states in Mesopotamia but you don’t see Sumer as a major preoccupation of art through the centuries. So what does Babylon have that the others don’t? The answer is easy of [...]
Want to experience Rome as the ancient Romans did? Google Earth offers the closest possible thing – a virtual tour of ancient Rome. With global environmental concerns at an all time high and a global economy in collapse, there are plenty of good reasons for the rise of virtual travel. It’s not the same as [...]
When I first went to Scarborough on the East Yorkshire coast, I couldn’t believe my eyes. There was a TARDIS on the footpath! I half expected the Doctor (played by Tom Baker of course) to appear and beckon me with a wink and waggle of his finger to join him on his inter-galactic adventures through [...]
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