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I slept some more and in the morning had a good breakfast of fresh fruit salad with a tomato and onion omelette. Venturing out to the front of the …
Getting a bus to Kuala Lumpur to connect with a train to Bangkok was easy. The taxi dropped me at the door of the bus company’s office and I …
Finally the train came. A young Singaporean man and I shared a seat that converted into bunks later, his on the bottom, mine on top again. The Australian couple …
What enhanced my pleasure in Glasgow’s plethora of statues, gargoyles and ornament on the walls and roofs of its grand buildings was the fact that the city’s residents seemed …
Look up Glasgow! Colin Begg Never mind the rest of Northern Europe, there is nothing like you in all the world. Your ships plied queer coasts just to check …
‘Why not send the story of my record attempt by radiotelephone every day?’ A New Zealand magazine had bought a similar story from me on my 1936 flight. I …
JAPANESE ENCOUNTERS It was five and a half months since I left Wellington, if I included the time spent at Auckland. I wrote, ‘Five and a half months alone …
City Engineer (1912-13) Built for the wealthy art collector Archibald McLellan to create a public gallery space on Sauchiehall Street, this grand edifice in the style of a Renaissance …
We left Horta on 3 October. The locals were shaking their heads, and saying that it was too late in the year for a yacht. Sheila was apprehensive, and …
Starbucks 58 West Nile Street Decorative Carving Architect: James Boucher (1875) This listed building features a Starbucks on the ground floor and winged mythical creatures sitting either side of …