Splanky in Greenland
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22
Feb
The Finding of the True Cross, Piero della Francesca, detail

The Good Fresh

begin afresh, afresh, afresh Philip Larkin You’d rather have the image in your mind than just have to look
12 min read
18
Jan
Hvalsey Church, Greenland

Hvalsey

If you want to travel to the edge of the world, you can. The edge of the world is in
8 min read
01
Jan
Chair

The Last Great Travel Writer

9 min read
30
Nov
Balancing Rock, Tiverton, Nova Scotia

Settlement patterns

On the north-west coast of Nova Scotia, on one of the islands just off the peninsula of Digby Neck on
6 min read
16
Nov
The Beach at Aldeburgh, Sunday morning

Sunday Morning at Aldeburgh

It is Sunday morning in Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coast. A clear sunny morning, cold, mid-Autumn. People are out on
6 min read
02
Nov
Driftwood

Driftwood

Iceland is a land of no trees. But along the northern coast of the extreme north-west of the island, the
6 min read
12
Oct
Ragna Róbertsdóttir, Katla, 1999, detail

Sorting

5 min read
21
Sep
fishing boats, Ísafjörður, Westfjord, Iceland

Empty

5 min read
07
Sep
Atlantic herring, Gervais et Boulart, 1877

Herring and the Shetland Receivers

8 min read
31
Aug
Juvenile gannet, Westray, Orkney

Gannet

5 min read