Despite its small size and probably because of the university and its nearness to London and to the rural East of England, there is a lot to Cambridge. Discovering Cambridge takes time. See the two cities – the city of the university students and the city of the ordinary working man or woman. Listen to … Read more
This year is the two-hundredth anniversary of the invention of the bicycle. Two hundred years ago in Mannheim in Germany, Karl Freiherr von Drais invented the ‘draisine’ – the forerunner of the bicycle. It had two wheels, with the front able to be steered by handlebars. But it had no pedals, the rider instead ‘scooting’ … Read more
Colinton is a village outside Edinburgh. It can be reached by bus (#16 from the town centre) and then it’s a short walk to the parish church. As a child, the author and poet Robert Louis Stevenson stayed in Colinton, where his grandfather was the Minister of the parish church. The river known as The … Read more