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! 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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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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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,…
