Surfs up on Nazare Beach Portugal
Nazare Beach is located to the east of Lisbon in Portugal and boasts beautiful white sands. It’s a busy tourist destination in the summer months attracting surfers from across the world for the big waves. The ‘Big Waves’ are created by the “Nazare Canyon“, a submarine geomorphological phenomenon which is the largest in Europe […]
Digital Diet
Enforced digital isolation Last minute check of emails and a final tweet before my smartphone goes into flight mode. No emails, no calls and no social media for a two and a half hour flight – bliss? The ‘digital diet’ is the latest smartphone fad I am sure I’m not alone in finding such periods […]
‘New Dawn’ light sculpture by Mary Branson in Palace of Westminster
#Vote100 100 years ago, certain women gained the right to vote and to stand for Parliament as part of the ‘Representation of the People Act’. “Deeds, not word” the motto of Emmeline Pankhurst and the suffragettes had prevailed. New Dawn Sculpture Mary Branson, designed the massive six metre high light sculpture ‘New Dawn’ to mark […]
Liberty Enlightening the World
Spur of the moment decision in New York I’m attending a conference in New York and impulsively decide I would do something I’d failed to do on previous visits – see the Statue of Liberty! Navigating my way through NYC In the heat of a roasting hot summer’s day in Manhattan, I guide my taxi driver across […]
