I had pre Christmas lunch with some friends who used to call themselves the Teddington Geo-Mafia but they had to drop the Teddington bit wjen they invited me to join them. We lunched at a restaurant called Zedel near Picadilly and they had these lovely postcards, I thought I would […]
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Atanas Entchev shared the opening page from the 2025 GeoHipster calendar – Disconnected World, Internet shutdowns and throttles around the world 2019 to 2024 Happy new year to all of our Maps in the Wild community.
When I visited my pal Mark in New York, he plied me with his collection of whiskies including this Jefferson’s Ocean which is apparently aged while being sailed around the world. Very smooth and warming.
Marc-Tobias sent me this and asked “I don’t know if this is “mappy” enough. It’s more like a background image. Seen in Hanover” My response was that if you have subtle contour lines and trees (possibly of the Christmas variety) then it certainly gets into our 12 Mappy days of […]
Jennica Pearson said “Happy Holidays! I’m new to the community, but I couldn’t help but want to contribute! Found this Santa tracker map while out and about at a Christmas-themed pop-up bar in Philadelphia” A superb first contribution Jessica, Mappy Holidays to you and all of our contributors.
On our trip to the US we visited the Norman Rockwell Museum (fantastic, uplifting collection). Rockwell produced hundreds of covers for the Saturday Evening Post including several Christmas covers, he was witty and exquisitely talented at observing American life.
Florence shared these “Christmas Windows of Van & Arpels at Bergdorf Goodman store New York” with us. That’s a mappy enticement to spend a lot of dosh for Xmas gifts!
Koen Rutten shared this candy jar. “#mapsInTheWild My new candy jar! Made by Royal Goedewaagen to the design of Sander Alblas. In my case: a second-hand one.”
