Tag: aqueduct

Pont du Gard

One of the world’s finest remaining examples of Roman engineering and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Originally published: 10 Jul 2010 in Architecturetitle_li=Europe

If Van Gogh had Wheels

How to cram a three week trip to Provence into three days.

Originally published: 8 Sep 2007 in Europe

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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.

Atonement

This adaptation of the novel is both period piece and manipulative melodrama.

  • Originally published: 4 Feb 2008 in Film

Kunsthistorisches Museum

An impressive art and archaeological collection and one of the world’s finest, housed in a vast, palatial building in Vienna.

La Guillotine

5/5. Golden and lively with plenty of fizz. A little harsh as it meets the tongue, but packs a mature and very mellow finish. Definitely one of my favourite blondes.

  • Originally published: 7 Jun 2010 in Beer

Walk the Line

Demons and diamonds in this biopic of the late Johnny Cash.

  • Originally published: 21 Nov 2006 in Film

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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. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.

I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.

I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.

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Dopeology.org

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.

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