Posted in sidetrips, tagged m5, othona on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Going to Othona, on a six-hour motorway drive, I took some more random pictures. Every fifteen minutes (the same frequency with which Simon Templar (‘The Saint’) would light a cigarette in the earlier novels of Leslie Charteris) I snapped a picture from the passenger window.
Result? Lots of wood-fringed banks, seen in a rushed-past blur. [...]
Posted in Accounts of the walk, tagged m5, peacock, wythall on October 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Spending time in a motorway service station, early on the morning of a clocks-back timeshift, without a car to return to or an urgent need to go anywhere, is a slightly disorientating, almost hallucinatory experience.
In the cafe, a face large than any human face has any right to be; in racks, oversized soft toys with [...]
Posted in Accounts of the walk, tagged final crisis, frankley, m5, ma pardoes, merry hill, netherton, old swan, rings of saturn, salthills, sandtics, sebald on October 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Pic: Merry Hill Zen garden
I wandered about the Merry Hill Centre for a bit, feeling incongruous in my hiking gear – despite the cold day, some customers were wearing shorts. It is an impressive place, one of the largest shopping malls in Europe. It was a late 80s example of privately-funded regeneration – ‘an attractive [...]
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