Some of the best walks are the ones that change character as you go. This one starts among the working boats and fish quays of North Shields and ends in the cheerful seaside sprawl of Whitley Bay – a few miles of coast that carry you from the Tyne’s industrial mouth out to the open…
Some cities you visit; others you carry. Newcastle is one I carry. This walk is a personal one – back through the places that shaped how I see the city, and a look at what time has done to them since. If you have time for nothing else, watch the film first. Everything below is…
A short and slightly surreal one. Out filming an ordinary day in Newcastle, I happened to catch two separate incidents on camera – the kind of thing you never expect to be recording. Here is what unfolded. It is a reminder that a city is unpredictable, and that the camera sometimes sees more than you…
On a bright spring morning I set out to walk every bridge across the Tyne in Newcastle – and realised I had picked marathon day, with the whole riverside given over to runners and an atmosphere I had not planned for. This is the story of that walk: the bridges, the river they cross, and…
This one began with a song. There are tunes so tied to Newcastle and the North East that they have become a kind of map – so I followed one of them around the city, letting the words decide where I walked. If you have time for nothing else, watch the film first. Everything below…
Every English seaside town comes with a checklist of cliches – the pier, the deckchairs, the chips eaten in the wind. So I went to Bournemouth to hunt down eleven of them, with affection and a raised eyebrow. If you have time for nothing else, watch the film first. Everything below is the context. Where…
There’s something quietly magical about places the world almost forgot. The Wendover Canal is one of them, once abandoned and slowly reclaimed by nature, now coming back to life piece by piece. Some stretches shimmer with water, others lie dry and untouched, and in between you’ll find narrowboats, wildlife, and a landscape full of stories…