Alastair Graham sent me this pic of the Cleveden Oar “Seen inside the Little Harp Inn on Clevedon sea front. Although not BBC anymore the radio masts still exist. The rifle range does not!” I am trying to work out how you could use this for navigation while rowing.
We went to the safari park and zoo just outside Tel Aviv to visit a friend recently. At the entrance to the zoo is a globe which shows some of the animals in the zoo. Leopards used to roam in the desert regions of Israel but they are almost extinct […]
Erik spotted this at the picture by Sueur at theLouvre. Plan of the Charterhouse of Paris, carried by Two Angels (1645-1648)From the small cloister of the Carthusian monastery in Paris.
On Easter Monday, my wife suggested that we go to the Spain and the Hispanic World exhibition at the Royal Academy. There are a couple of maps, she teased to get me interested. Well there were more than a couple of maps! This is another longish post with a load […]
Marc-Tobias sent me this pic of an old German globe toy. You can have some fun trying to work out the age of this globe from the names of the countries in Africa. “The globe is in German. What’s surprising here is that it useshistorical borders. You see Namibia is […]