Tag: Roman
Trier
Germany’s oldest city, Trier was an important centre of the Roman Empire and sometime home to the Emperor himself.
Pont du Gard
One of the world’s finest remaining examples of Roman engineering and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A walk in Longdendale
A bleak, depopulated valley on the Manchester side of the Peak District and a symbol of the industrial revolution.
I am 27 today
Birthdays are a wonderful opportunity to reflect on how much more you have yet to achieve in life.
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
V For Vendetta
Reasonably average high-concept film on a nation laid low by extremism.
- Originally published: 25 Apr 2008 in Film
Naturhistorisches Museum
An opportunity to see Gunther von Hagens’ latest plastination exhibit – this time with animals – within the setting of an amazing museum.
- Originally published: 13 Feb 2011 in Museums & Galleries
Cairo and Giza
Through the frenetic, dusty Egyptian capital to the great pyramids.
- Originally published: 19 Oct 2006 in Architecturetitle_li=Middle East
Syriana
A movie for our times: a challenging look at the many side-effects of crude foreign policy.
- Originally published: 5 Dec 2006 in Film
The Departed
The older generation still runs things round these parts.
- Originally published: 26 Feb 2007 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.