Tag: istanbul
A culture of sorrow
Orhan Pamuk describes a collective sorrow that permeates his native city but this cultural meme seems to have taken root everywhere.
Istanbul
A crazy city of 13m people where East meets West, Istanbul has always been a vast, confusing metropolis. Some things never change!
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.
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Madrid by bike
With such wide rights of access to cyclists, Madrid is the perfect city to see on two wheels.
- Originally published: 3 Oct 2010 in Europe
Mean Streets
A sparklingly childish De Niro and some very mature directing.
- Originally published: 30 Aug 2006 in Film
Villers-la-Ville
A walk through woodlands and cropfields in the area around the ruins of the Cistercian Abbaye de Villers.
- Originally published: 23 May 2010 in Walking
Soldier of Orange
Strong performances and arresting images in this Dutch view of wartime occupation.
- Originally published: 4 Sep 2006 in Film
Relocating to Brussels: the final haul
Moving to Brussels: temporary accommodation, commune registration, parking permits, utilities, rubbish collection, doctors, dentists.
- Originally published: 14 Jul 2008 in Relocation
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. 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.
Shameless self-promotion
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.