Camping in Korea, Part Three

“I suppose I’ll have to write a report on this,” the PRO said half-heartedly over bacon and eggs next morning.

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Camping in Korea

They don’t make them like that any more. It’s what my generation say about a previous generation in a way implying standards slipping, world going to the dogs, things ain’t what they used to be.

Petrine Baroque

The proximity of the Alexander Nevsky Russian Orthodox cathedral to parliament, in the centre of Tallinn, I suppose aroused anti-Russian sentiment and led some people to moot its demolition and replacement with a park.

Toompea Time

There was a fine view of this tower, Pikk Hermann, from the fifth floor of one of the Radissons in Tallinn.

On Stage Coaches

In my terraced street there have been a few false starts. The pavements were taken up to lay cables for TV; roofs were adorned with giant white mushrooms for TV; a proposal to communally install solar panels did not gain traction; plastic caddies for bio-waste likewise did not get wide take-up.

On Hackney Coaches

An almost contemporary of Sir Walter is Sir Thomas Lipton – both successful self-made men from humble beginnings. Like Walter, Thomas Lipton was a friend of Edward VII leading the Kaiser to mock the king for going boating with his grocer. He already went carriage driving with his wine merchant. That says much about social… Continue reading On Hackney Coaches

Sir Walter

The most interesting of the Gilbey brothers is Walter. They were all good businessmen and philanthropic but Walter had a deeper hinterland. “In 1858, the year after his return from the Crimean War, Walter had married Ellen Parish, the fourth daughter of the landlord of the White Horse Inn at North Street, and soon after… Continue reading Sir Walter