Animals
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I wrote 90% of this while I was in Kosovo, but procrastinated in actually posting it. I’ve finished it up months after that trip finished – enjoy! As a Brit, I have 99 problems but a bear ain’t one. Britain has been completely and utterly bear-less since the Middle Ages – my ancestors made sure…
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🦢 Context! 🦢 Growing up, my Mum loved gardening. It was her passion in life. Consequently, I’ve been to a lot of garden centres. One thing I’ve always appreciated about garden centres – and Britain has a lot of them – is that each one has to have its own gimmick. Exotic animals for sale!…
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Context! The Natural History Museum in London has its own page on Atlas Obscura and I cannot for the life of me figure out why. There’s some odd stuff there – as I mentioned on one of the very posts I did on this here blog – but it’s one of the biggest museums of…
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Context! At last! Eight months after I started this blog, and after covering places in London, Scotland and the East Midlands, I’m finally able to talk about something international. I’m currently writing this in the lovely country of Bulgaria, where I’ll be staying with a good friend of mine for a few days 🇧🇬 We…
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I like (good) zoos a lot – on every long trip I take, I try to visit at least one. But they’re not really offbeat attractions in of themselves – at least until someone opens a zoo full of dinosaurs, which I don’t think could end badly. Nonetheless I wanted to write about it anyway,…
