Reinder spotted this in a Utrecht restaurant “… in restaurant ‘De ontdekking’ [The discovery]” Quite something!
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Berl said “We saw these two at the top of Monte Igueldo in Donostia (San Sebastian) in the Basque region of Spain. Apparently Basque bears no relationship to any other language.”
I had lunch at The Barbary in Covent Garden with a pal. I couldn’t resist a couple of pics of these lovely place mats.
Jaview Jimenz Shaw shared this board game. The translation of the box is: APPRECIATE THE WORLD Who will be the betting world champion? Most residents? Longest road network? Largest forest area? Highest temperature?
Who doesn’t love a good metro map/diagram? Surely not our community of Maps in the Wild lovers? This is the Washington Metro Map which was very useful for getting to the National Air and Space Museum which has featured a lot over the last couple of weeks
An incomplete sketch by Harry Beck, the designer of the iconic London Underground map. The hastily drawn sketch focuses on Southwest London as it intends to show a proposed new layout for the District Line branch to Richmond.Much of the map is composed of crude pencil sketches, but the relevant […]
This unique manuscript sketch by Harry Beck, the designer of the iconic London Tube Map, shows an early attempt to add the Victoria Line (still under construction at the time) to his Underground diagram. His elegant and ingenious proposal introduces the Victoria line as a clean diagonal running from northeast […]
We went to see the exhibition of Tube Diagrams featuring some very early sketches by Harry Beck at the Map House in Knightsbridge (very, very pricey). Victoria Line at Kings Cross and Euston Four unique sketches in Harry Beck’s hand showing different ways to depict the area around Kings Cross […]
