August 2025 – East of Elveden
1 post published by East of Elveden during August 2025| East of Elveden
1 post published by East of Elveden during August 2025| East of Elveden
We were driving home from North Wales, and it is a long way to East Anglia from there. So we were looking for a break in the journey somewhere: a place to rest overnight before A14-ing onwards to N…| East of Elveden
My latest book Flint Country was published a couple of weeks ago. I would just like to share this generous blog post about it by Klausbernd Vollmar and Hanne Siebers. It also includes some of Hanne…| East of Elveden
My new book Flint Country: a stone journey will be published on July 10th. Here’s a link to the blog post I wrote about it for the publisher, Saraband.| East of Elveden
The road to Dirē Dawa is a long one: an eight-hour drive from Addis Ababa, or so we are told. We left Addis Ababa at dawn, our bus rattling through empty streets shadowed by new-build office blocks…| East of Elveden
The very mention of the village of Happisburgh in Norfolk brings to mind all manner of prehistoric associations and connections with long-extinct ancestors. The early years of this current century …| East of Elveden
A Journey to Avebury is the name of a short silent film made by Derek Jarman made in 1971. Shot in wobbly Super 8, and saturated with burnt orange hues, it has an otherworldly eldritch atmosphere t…| East of Elveden
Of all London’s lost rivers it is the Walbrook that is the most irrefutably lost: lost to time, lost to place… well, almost. An important source of water in Roman times, when its banks were lined w…| East of Elveden
Much of the fabric of Birmingham’s history is, like the city’s modest river, the oft-culverted Rea, half-hidden or tucked away from sight. Occulted beneath flyovers and underpasses, the city’s past flows sluggishly beneath redundant factories and car parks. Unconvincingly disguised, and with the vaguest hint of rusting metal, it escapes as vapour from drains and … Continue reading "Ghost Factory"| East of Elveden
For a number of reasons it had been weeks since I had ventured out of the city for a walk. Cities are fine but brick, concrete and tarmac can get monotonous: too much noise, too much body swerving of fellow humans and traffic. I wanted water and trees, a church or two maybe; breeze and … Continue reading "Little Ouse, little bird"| East of Elveden
In the past I have chosen a rural walk to celebrate the turning of the year; this year though, I have opted for something more urban. Together with my friend, Nigel Roberts, I continued along the r…| East of Elveden
In recent years I have got into the habit of taking a walk on the day of the winter solstice, December 21. Yesterday’s walk was along the section of the Boudicca Way that lies between Venta Icenoru…| East of Elveden
