Looe at night...

Back in Cornwall after, oh, more than 40 years. I stayed the night in a small fishing town called Looe...

Waterside living...

I spent a few hours at Port Solent, a new(ish) marina near Portsmouth. It seems to have all the right ingredients: boats, fancy waterside apartments, and ‘the Boardwalk’, which turns out to be an uninspiring collection of retailers and restaurants. Maybe the architects wanted to recreate a San Francisco vibe, a ‘Fisherman’s Wharf’ scenario. But the whole is less than the sum of the parts, and this pale pastiche was almost deserted. The boats sat at their moorings, a few people congregated in Wetherspoons, and less than a dozen people (including me) saw Boyhood at the nearby cinema…

Whernside...

Snow in Ribblesdale, in the Yorkshire Dales, with Whernside, one of the Three Peaks, in the distance...

Asylum to apartments...

The snow’s arrived, but I have articles to write… so no time to be out and about with my camera. The hospital in Guiseley, Leeds (‘lunatic asylum’, as it used to be known) has a new lease of life as upmarket apartments…

The Langdale Fells...

There aren't many quiet times in the Lake District, but January is one. There's hardly anyone around, and the weather hasn't helped: soggy, dark and gloomy. But the roads are clear, you don't have to fight your way to the bar - if you can find a pub that's open - and maybe the sun will come out for long enough to take a few pix...

Keswick...

Keswick at dusk, just before the Christmas lights were due to come down...

Derwentwater and Blencathra...

Plenty of gloomy days, unsurprisingly, at the turn of the year, though I enjoyed a walk around Derwentwater...