by Trevor Millum | Jun 30, 2015 | Places
Looking across the canal towards our apartment – somewhere behind the trees. Two flights of steep stairs but worth it when you get there! The open gardens also included a lot of art, especially sculptures, and sometimes something unexpected: The hidden...
by Trevor Millum | May 21, 2015 | Places
Swoop, swirl, glide, dive… Sweeping over the waves or clinging on the cliffs, seabirds are everywhere! This is Bempton Cliffs on the coast of Yorkshire just north of Bridlington. Gulls, gannets and guillemots; razorbills, fulars and kittiwakes all circle...
by Trevor Millum | Apr 21, 2015 | Places
Even a grand mansion benefits from a little bit of careful framing. The house is now the Northern College but the gardens, from where this is taken, are open to the public. Some nice variation from parkland to ‘Union Jack’ beds and then the slope up to a...
by Trevor Millum | Mar 9, 2015 | Places
Conwy Castle on a misty morning, seen from the walls which encircle the town, giving excellent views not only of the castle but of the estuary and the hills and everyone’s back gardens. It’s a lovely town – compact enough to walk around in a short...
by Trevor Millum | Feb 12, 2015 | Places
Too often Surrey is associated with boring commuter towns, traffic and suburban sprawl. But there are other parts of the county which are beautiful. Some of the lanes through the North Downs are more like Devon roads with their overhanging branches and deep cuttings....
by Trevor Millum | Nov 9, 2014 | Places
One of the many delights of the Bowes Museum is its collection of art. I’m ashamed to say that I can’t remember the artist who painted this but it’s just one of a really wide-ranging collection. (See also the detail from one of the Canalettos,...
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