This blog is my personal space for documenting the things I’m curious about, the places I explore, and the experiences that shape how I see the world. It began with a strong focus on travel, walking, and events, but over time it has grown into something broader — a home for many of my interests, both out in the world and in thought.
You’ll find posts about travel across the UK and beyond, from cities and historic sites to countryside walks, coastal paths, and long-distance trails. I write about events I attend — festivals, historical re-enactments, air shows, and cultural gatherings — capturing not just what happened, but what made them memorable. There’s also space for museums, architecture, heritage sites, and the quieter moments of exploration that often say the most.
Alongside this, the blog includes writing on culture and hobbies that matter to me, such as music, film and television, PC gaming, collecting (including militaria and vintage toys), and specialist interests like transport, aviation, and living history. These are not reviews in the commercial sense, but reflections shaped by curiosity and enthusiasm.
The Knowledge section sits slightly apart, but still belongs here. It’s where I explore subjects I enjoy learning about — computing, science, history, philosophy, economics, geopolitics, mythology, and the people behind big ideas. These posts aren’t meant to be academic or definitive; they’re a way of thinking things through, making connections, and sharing what I’ve discovered along the way.
Ultimately, this blog isn’t about fitting neatly into a single category. It’s a record of interests, journeys, ideas, and ongoing learning. Whether you arrive here for travel inspiration, cultural notes, niche hobbies, or thoughtful exploration, I hope you’ll find something that sparks your curiosity — or nudges you to explore something new yourself.
I need to construct a method which will ‘enable me gradually to increase my knowledge and to raise it little by little to the highest point which the mediocrity of my mind and the short span of my life will allow it to reach.’ I need to construct a method ‘in order to see clearly into my actions and to walk with safety in this life.’
Descartes, Discourse on the Method and Meditations
…and resolving to study no other science than that which I could find within myself or else in the great book of the world, I spent the rest of my youth in travelling, seeing courts and armies, mixing with people of different humours and ranks, in gathering a varied experience, in testing myself in the situations which chance offered me, and everywhere reflecting upon whatever events I witnesses in such a way as to draw some profit from them.
Descartes, Discourse on the Method and Meditations
Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
Albert Einstein
For this is the deepest realization when we try to plumb the depth of life: what holds the deepest meaning in life is not what we hope for, nor what we wish from life, but it is the near and far people who are in need of us.
Albert Schweitzer, Reverence for Life
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
