“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps
“A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. they tear things down and make new again.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Broken Abroad
“Walkers are ‘practitioners of the city,’ for the is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker invents other ways to go”.
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Europe
United Kingdom
Soper Hall, Caterham, Surrey in the Snow.
This Town Hall is names after William Garland Soper , Founder of Modern Caterham. He died in 1908.
Little Harestone Cottage, Caterham, Surrey, UK.
This cottage used to at the entrance to a long driveway that went up to Harestone House. The Manor belonged to William Garland Soper. The manor was demolished in 2015 without formal permission from Caterham by an Epilepsy Housing Association, based in Croydon, Surrey. This Cottage is now the last remaining part of the Harestone House estate
Little Harestone Cottage, Caterham, Surrey, UK
Farnham Town Hall.
Taken using a Pentax k100, film camera and then digitised using a ‘negative scanner’
Finland
Viking Line, Helsinki, Finland
Suurkirkko, Helsinki, Finland
Suurkirkko, Helsinki, Finland
Mallorca, The Balearics, Spain
Le Seu: – This panorama has been stitched together in Photoshop. I took the images in 2014 when I was in Palma, Mallorca on holiday. That year was the first time I had visited the city and the country. This turned out perfectly, more so than I had hoped it would.
Le Seu Cathedral. (SIDE) Palma Mallorca: – I took this image while visiting the city in 2012. I love the contrast of the gothic sandstone against the dark blue sky
Old City Walls, Palma, Mallorca
Palma, Mallorca
Port Petit, Cala-Llonga, Cala D’or, Mallorca
Port Petit, Cala-Llonga, Cala D’or, Mallorca
Es Forti, Cala D’or, Mallorca
Santanyi, Mallorca
Santanyi Church, Santanyi, Mallorca
Cala Figuera, Mallorca
Cala Figuera, Mallorca
Cala Figuera, Mallorca
Cala Figuera, Mallorca
Santanyi region, Mallorca
Port Colon, Mallorca
Port Colon, Mallorca
Near Avinguda Christoph colon, Porto Colon, Mallorca
Sant Salvador, Felanitx, Mallorca
Sant Salvador, Felanitx, Mallorca
Es Carritxó, Felanitx, Mallorca
Es Carritxó, Felanitx, Mallorca
France
Tour Eiffel, Paris
The view from Tour Eiffel, Paris
Czech Republic
Old Town Square from the Town Hall Tower, Prague
Old Town Square from the Town Hall Tower, Prague
Charles Bridge, Prague
President Palace, Prague
Italy
Plazzo Republica, Rome, Italy
Plazzo Republica, Rome, Italy
Roman Forum, Rome, Italy
Rome, Italy
The Basilica of Constantine and Maxentius in the Roman Forum, Rome
Forum, Rome, Italy
Forum, Rome, Italy
Forum, Rome, Italy
Forum, Rome, Italy
Forum, Rome, Italy
Forum, Rome, Italy
Forum, Rome, Italy
Forum, Rome, Italy
Forum, Rome, Italy
Forum, Rome, Italy
Forum, Rome, Italy
Forum, Rome, Italy
Unknown Soldier’s monument, Rome
Palazzo Montecitorio, Seat of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Piazza di Monte Citorio, Rome. The excavated obelisk of the Solarium Augusti, now known as the Obelisk of Montecitorio, was installed in front of the palace by Pius VI in 1789.
Piazza della Rotonda
Pantheon, Rome, Italy
Inside the Pantheon, Rome, Italy
The ceiling of the Pantheon, Rome, Italy
Pantheon, Rome, Italy
Pantheon, Rome, Italy
Macedonia
St. John’s the Theologian (St. Jovan of Kaneo)
Roman Amphitheatre
Roman Amphitheatre
Tzar Samuil Fortress, Ohrid
Plaošnik
Plaošnik
Inside Tzar Samuil Fortress, Ohrid
Plaošnik
Plaošnik
Plaošnik
Plaošnik
Skopje is a strange city. It is littered with grand monuments and statues of Macedonian heroes and ancient Macedonia kings and culture. Built by the president to Grandize a borrowed past. The country is poor because of Greece’s refusal to recognise the country’s name and give her a future with in the EU. A joint ethnic group of protestors had thrown paint at these grosely over the top monuments in the days before I visited the city, as a form of protest against these ridiculous monuments. The Macedonian Albanian histories are noticeably absent from these monuments.
Croatia
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Dubrovnik City Walls, Croatia
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Dubrovnik, Croatia. This cross is situation up at the Dubrovnik Fortress, above the old city.
David G A Ward Photography 