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Louvre
Queues and queue jumpers. Crowds and crowded spaces. There are great art galleries and there’s the Louvre.
- Originally published: 6 Oct 2011 in Museums & Galleries
Farewell, Jamila!
Dining out at lunchtime during the working week is a rare treat. This time we say goodbye to a colleague.
- Originally published: 6 Oct 2011 in Personalia
Pink Martini
Anything goes and anything but typical: the eclectic curiosity shop of Pink Martini in Paris.
- Originally published: 5 Oct 2011 in Concerts
Sainte-Chapelle
Now almost hidden on the Île de la Cité, the Sainte-Chapelle is a masterpiece of French Gothic architecture.
- Originally published: 4 Oct 2011 in Architecture
Istanbul
A crazy city of 13m people where East meets West, Istanbul has always been a vast, confusing metropolis. Some things never change!
- Originally published: 25 Sep 2011 in Middle East
Hagia Sophia
One of the oldest churches in the world, the Hagia Sophia has survived invasions, conversions and earthquakes since it was finished in 537AD.
- Originally published: 25 Sep 2011 in Architecture
Hoodoos and balloons
An epic day hike through the hills and valleys of the Göreme Tarihi Milli Parkı, passing through some of the world’s most beautiful and unusual rock scenery.
- Originally published: 25 Sep 2011 in Walking
Göreme
Leaving the city for the desert: the rocky landscapes of Göreme, a town in Central Anatolia that has become a popular destination for backpackers.
- Originally published: 25 Sep 2011 in Middle East
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Nature’s way
My mother has a name for this kind of weather. She calls it “germ weather”. The kind of weather, she says, that you catch colds in. Spare a thought for Gary then, one of the managers at work, who was all set for escaping these miserable climes in favour of the blessed sun of Cancun, …
- Originally published: 24 Oct 2005 in Personalia
Invasion postponed due to fog
Folk have fought violently over this strip of coastline for centuries but with such thick fogs, one wonders how.
- Originally published: 9 Apr 2009 in Europe
The Queen
Comes highly recommended to even the hardest republicans.
- Originally published: 27 Feb 2007 in Film
Howards End
Some great individual performances. A boon for Forster fans but a bit of a chore for everyone else.
- Originally published: 2 Apr 2007 in Film
Vallée du Samson
Non-stop rain and a long diversion due to hunting: it’s everything an autumn hike in Wallonie can offer!
- Originally published: 11 Oct 2009 in Walking
Stop ACTA!
A privately-negotiated international trade agreement that's anti-sharing, anti-privacy and anti-democratic.
Let's put a stop to ACTA.
Who you gonna call?
Hello, you. I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name as those guys. I'm a user experience consultant, expatriate, traveller, writer and pro cycling enthusiast.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert. I started my website in 2005 and I've been running it ever since.
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Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.