Monthly Archives: July 2011

West Coast Trip: Vancouver

(The first four are lomo, the rest digital.) We stayed at Sunset Inn and Suites and while I don’t think anyone would call it hip I’d highly recommend it as a nice place that’s great value as you get a mini apartment with a kitchen plus free breakfast. We engaged in the usual tourist pottering [...]

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West Coast Trip: Seattle

Lomo pictures… Digital pictures… We had the briefest time in Seattle but it was great. We made sure to do the tourist places like Pike Place Market, go up the Space Needle, and take a look at the original Starbucks :) I felt quite at home there, maybe because of the rain! Places that I [...]

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Hot Hot Summer

A few weeks ago we headed into London on a very hot day to visit a friend. Going to visit someone in the place they know really well when they have great taste in interesting places is always a winner. On this visit we started with coffee at the Milk Bar (very nice), ate at [...]

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Day In The Life Revisited

A million years ago some bloggy friends and I would do regular ‘Day In the Life’ posts together on the same day, so each documenting what they got up to on a particular day. There was a resurrection of this on Tuesday which I am joining in on. You can see the other posts here. [...]

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West Coast Trip: Portland (Lomo)

Portland wasn’t what I’d been expecting, I think somehow I had it in my mind that it would be smaller? Lots of cool stuff going on! We stayed at the Ace Hotel. Visited Powell’s and many many record shops. Ate and drank in Clyde Common, had a fantastic breakfast sandwich from Bunk Sandwiches, and of [...]

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