The world has no center, at least on its surface. Continue reading “Half-Marathon”
Category: places
Gander
This is how the great-circle route from London to Puerto Vallarta should have looked. Beginning,
Across from Baja
Commenters, you solved my double riddle, or more than half solved it. Continue reading “Across from Baja”
A constellation’s footprint
We’re going away on Thursday for a few sunny days near the Tropic of Cancer. Continue reading “A constellation’s footprint”
Thanksgiving across the pond
We Americans sailed up the Thames to get to a Thanksgiving Day service.
Talos
Eclipse over Lake and Tower
Lincoln, the Pool Colony
If you admire Honest Abe, you may be interested to know where his surname came from. Continue reading “Lincoln, the Pool Colony”
Container Monster
You never know, in a place like Greenwich, what may appear around the corner.
Peter the Great on the banks of the Thames
Tsar Peter was uncommonly tall, but I didn’t know he was this much taller than me.
Continue reading “Peter the Great on the banks of the Thames”