UK travel
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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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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! Dinosaurs are the single best thing ever to exist and anyone who claims otherwise is lying to themselves. Wollaton Hall, despite being a major natural history museum, sadly doesn’t have any on permanent display. However they’ve been rectifying this with temporary exhibits showing dinosaur skeletons from other museums. Back in 2018, the museum held…
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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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Context! Britain as a whole has never had a good reputation for food, and this is especially true of our neighbours to the North. I actually think this is pretty unfair, but a long essay about why I think Yorkshire puddings and shortbread are genuinely top tier eats would be really boring to read. Also…
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