Amazing food, amazing architecture, amazing city.

I have never read any Cormac McCarthy before.  This is grim, raw, intermittently violent, and relentlessly dark.  The style, which grated slightly at first due to its wilful simplicity (no ‘distracting’ punctuation and the like and very Hemingwayish) has grown on me, and despite conveying a bleak and difficult world the prose flies by.
The story [...]

Totally fascinating.  Written by Mervyn Peake who was himself quite fascinating: a brilliant writer and artist who died prematurely of Parkinson’s disease, with many ideas yet to be reduced to written form.  So far the book is something akin to what you would get if Dickens wrote a fantasy novel.

My new toy is one of these.  With virtually no zoom, a decent wide angle, a very fast lens for a compact and some great in-camera ‘film’ modes its a perfect camera for not f*cking about, just taking the damn picture.  I am very much looking forward to travelling with it, and to the challenge [...]