Tag: peak district
A walk in Longdendale
A bleak, depopulated valley on the Manchester side of the Peak District and a symbol of the industrial revolution.
Southport and the Peaks
A visit to the west coast: the last time I was in Southport was probably 1993.
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
The books are burning
Nowadays a media event reaches everyone everywhere. The Koran burning at Gainsville shows that leaders still don’t know how to respond.
- Originally published: 9 Sep 2010 in Editorial
Entropa: one vision of Europe
When artist David Černý was commissioned to produce a work marking the Czech EU presidency, the result was embarassing!
- Originally published: 5 Mar 2009 in Humour
Mud in the Hageland
It can take just a few days’ rain to turn much of Flanders into a sticky morass.
- Originally published: 14 Nov 2009 in Walking
Thai cookery evening
An evening in Braine l’Alleud, having a lesson in Thai cooking.
- Originally published: 28 Feb 2009 in Editorial
Soldier of Orange
Strong performances and arresting images in this Dutch view of wartime occupation.
- Originally published: 4 Sep 2006 in Film
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.