Travel writing and photography from Turkey, England, Scotland, Hungary, Ukraine and Russia
October 3, 2012 Leave a comment
My photography received a wave of unexpected attention yesterday, when the QI Elves (researchers for the BBC quiz show QI, hosted by Stephen Fry) found one of my posts and tweeted it to the programme's followers.
The interest took my breath away: the post - a photo set of puffins on the Scottish island of Lunga - was viewed
April 14, 2012 Leave a comment
Jacques Rudolph faces Tim Murtagh at Lord's
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At the close of the third day of the LV County Championship match between Middlesex and Surrey at Lord’s, Surrey were just 46 runs from a victory target of 141, with six wickets remaining. Read more of this post
February 25, 2012 Leave a comment
Today one of my photographs from Kyiv, Ukraine was published in the Guardian newspaper’s Weekend magazine. See it online in the Life & Style pages.
January 5, 2012 1 Comment
My photography received a wave of unexpected attention yesterday, when the QI Elves (researchers for the BBC quiz show QI, hosted by Stephen Fry) found one of my posts and tweeted it to the programme’s followers.
The interest took my breath away: the post - a photo set of puffins on the Scottish island of Lunga - was viewed 1,620 times between lunchtime and midnight (last year my entire blog received on average 15 views per day). A couple of visitors even left a comment. On my previous busiest day there were about 140 page views across MY EUROPE; yesterday the number was 1,999 (more than 10% of total visitors to the site since I created it in 2008).
The fleeting popularity that the QI Elves granted me made my day - but it is the puffins who deserve the 1,620 new fans.
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AND THEN…: The QI Elves got back in touch a few months later, to ask whether they could use two of my puffin photographs for the programme’s website. They can be found on QI’s “Puffins” page.
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July 19, 2011 Leave a comment
Similar posts: Photography sets, posts from England, a published photo of Brighton, posts about Nature.
April 29, 2011 2 Comments
Please follow the link to read my guide to the city of Kyiv, “Eastern Europe’s Best Kept Secret”, in Travel Addict magazine.
The link will open a new page, from where you can click to read the pdf copy of the magazine.
