Gavin Fleming sent this to us. “Map of Johannesburg projected on the University of Witwatersrand Great Hall as part of its centenary celebrations (Wits is my alma mater; photo credit Dr Mary Evans)” Pretty spectacular!
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Barry Rudeman (Raremaps.com) posted this of a map embedded in a wall outside a bar in Szimpla Kert, Budapest. It seems to be connected to a petition about pedestrianisation.
Reinderf sent us this from his visit to Prague last year. “You can see the shape of the country Česká republika on the window of the Tourist Information Office. “
Shona Frost sent me this “Having received an invite to the BCS conference (which regrettably I can’t attend) it contained a link to your webpages. Suitably intrigued, I went to have a rummage and found your fantastic resource of maps out in the wild. Thanks for putting them onto a […]
Melinda Clarke sent me this beautiful pic of a map clock of Australia. Photo taken at a fabulous country pub – The Railway Hotel, Wangaratta, Victoria Australia. A creative way to use the old plaster left on the pub’s walls.
Reinder took these pics of a building in Amsterdam This map is based on a map of the North Pole by Cornelis Claesz. (1598) If you are wondering about Willem Barents
This big wall map/mural shows part of the surrounds to Rishikesh. Just look at the cable chaos coming out of the sockets in the bottom right hand corner, reminds me of the electricity cables running between many of the building in the dense urban areas of India.
On Friday, my dear friends Mark and Chiara got married in Leicestershire. Mark is one of my oldest geo friends and is one of our group of geo geeks, the 5 O’Clock Club, who hang out virtually every Friday, they are also the group who join me and Ed for […]
Faye Chant sent us this pic of her table cloth. “This is my table cloth! I found this oil cloth at a local fabric shop. My boys love looking at it over breakfast and talking about different countries! “ I can’t think of a better way to teach children about geography […]
Reinder sent me these pics of am exquisite map sofa in the middle of the street in Kortenaerkade, The Hague, The Netherlands
Din Tai Fung is a Chinese restaurant in Covent Garden, London with global ambitions and nice looking dumplings (via Elizabeth).
Marc Tobias took this pic of Ed Freyfogle looking the window of Schropp, which is Berlin’s 275 year old equivalent of London’s Stanfords. They also have a rather neat 3 wheeler delivery van with a globe on the roof.
Gavin Fleming sent me this pic of a fine bottle of Stellenbosch Chardonnay, apparently the wine comes from only one field!