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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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As someone who runs a blog specifically about weird/offbeat attractions, I have to confess that I found Edinburgh a lot more… pedestrian than Glasgow. It’s still a great city, don’t get me wrong! I loved Edinburgh Zoo and the Harryhausen exhibition, but I found it a bit tricky to find anything in Edinburgh that wasn’t…
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Context! If you’ve never heard of Ray Harryhausen, you may well have seen some of his work. If you haven’t seen any of his films, you’ve definitely, absolutely seen something influenced by him. Or maybe you’ve just seen snippets in the Malcolm in the Middle intro. Ray Harryhausen wasn’t an actor, writer or director –…
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Context! Mostly famous these days from a quote by someone else, David Livingstone was a Victorian Christian missionary who made several expeditions into Central Africa, recording the horrors of the slave trade there. He did help to pressure the British Empire into curtailing the Arab slavers in the region, and he was the first European…
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Context! The Hunterian Museum, part of the University of Glasgow, is the best University museum I’ve seen outside of Oxbridge. It’s a really beautiful building, free to enter, and has exhibits on basically everything. The Hunterian Collection is over two hundred years old, and has picked up some wild exhibits in its time. Some of…
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