Brompton Cemetery in west London is a riot of extraordinary Victorian graves, and one of the oddest, but also most affecting, tombs is that ...

A flurry of bids in the last five minutes of the auction took the price to £100. Sold! Was the late interest prompted by this blog, or simpl...

The description of this item on eBay reads: "CARVED FROM ONE PIECE OF WOOD, A RATHER NICE 11" LONG MODEL ROWING SKIFF". In f...

batana di rovigno Originally uploaded by claun_zompetta This batana was snapped in Rovinj. What a great picture - I must go there.

I have been searching the web for a possible original for the 'needleboats' that James Joyce watched on the Adriatic at Trieste in h...

Rescue 2010, the Surf Lifesaving World Championship is coming to Newquay, Cornwall. It promises to be a spectacular event, with surf paddli...

This from the Bellingham Herald in Washington State is a story of a woman who lived in a house overlooking this but for 16 years failed to...