London
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I wrote most of this back in October, after coming back from my trip to London, but then forgot all about it – until today, when I found the draft I’d done that was 90% finished! Please enjoy sorry it’s a bit late 🙏 Context! Back in 2014 I flew to the US, and for…
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Context! I read a book earlier this year – The Museum of Whales you Will Never See, by A. Kendra Greene – about unusual museums in Iceland. The first chapter is dedicated entirely to the Iceland Phallological Museum, which as you may have guessed is dedicated entirely to the penis. At first glance, you’d naturally…
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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! Just visiting a mosque in Britain these days is nothing special as we have loads of them. It’s like just visiting a church. I’ve been to a few in the UK, including London’s Central Mosque and some smaller ones in the Midlands, but most of the mosques in Britain aren’t really tourist attractions in…
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On my trip to London I saw some interesting stuff that I’d like to briefly talk about, but aren’t interesting enough for their own articles. I’ve listed them here!! 🛸Woking’s Martian Tripod Statue The town of Woking, in addition to its mosque, is also famous as the area where HG Wells had Martians crash land…
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I wasn’t able to take many photos during this visit (I asked and was politely told no), so I’ve included some photos I found online to help illustrate this post. 14th September update! I was looking through the Happy Science YouTube channel when I realised that some of the livestreams show a lot of the…
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![🚌 [Bonus] Kelvedon Hatch – visiting by public transport](https://coffeefrog.travel.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/image_editor_output_image261896263-1632081772818.jpg?w=804)
(This is a companion to the main post I did on Kelvedon Hatch bunker, which can be found here). Visiting Kelvedon Hatch by public transport is possible, albeit awkward. Even the website doesn’t really advise it. I made the journey myself in May 2021, and to help anyone else who wants to do it, I’ve…
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Context! At the height of the Cold War, the British Government constructed a network of sophisticated underground bunkers in the event of that a nuclear war broke out. These were designed to shield the government, scientists and other people they deemed important enough to save in the event of a nuclear holocaust, or at least…
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Context! Okay yes it’s #1 on the list of “unusual and interesting London sights” on Atlas Obscura. Highgate Cemetery isn’t that obscure these days, receiving a steady stream of Communists, goths, tourists looking for something quirky to do and (very occasionally) actual mourners. Highgate Cemetery is one of the few private cemeteries left in the…
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