This abridged log intends to detail discoveries made during multiple journeys from Portsmouth, England to Cornwall, between the Years of Our Lord 1995 and 2018. Generous internal funding allowed me to fully integrate with the [… read more ]
Author and S&C co-founder Tom Sykes‘ new ‘political travelogue’, The Realm of the Punisher, is published today by Signal Books. It records the last nine years’ of Tom’s visits to the Philippines, a country now [… read more ]
S&C co-founder and features editor Tom Sykes reports on our upcoming book, Pompey Writes, an anthology of the best writing and visual art to have appeared on the website plus brand new material from some [… read more ]
A paradise, a sanctuary to an amazing variety of fauna and flora found nowhere else in the world. It is blessed with awesome landscapes and its steeply sloped mountains are canopied by virgin forests. This [… read more ]
The S&C team are very sad to announce that our Contributing Editor, Gareth Rees, died peacefully at home on Saturday. Tom Sykes remembers this extraordinary gentleman. I was just one of many people Gareth inspired [… read more ]
University of Portsmouth student Phoebe Hedges finds a new mystery in a very familiar train journey. It was the end of my first year at university and I travelled home for the summer. Yet each [… read more ]
As a Portsmouth-based planetary modeller, David Angus hand-makes representations of the planets and their terrains. In 2001, a childhood dream came true: he was asked to work with the BBC on their Dinosaur Island show. Long ago [… read more ]
S&C Contributing Editor Mark Wright explores a side of Barcelona that sharply contrasts with the city’s glamorous image: the migrant workers struggling to make a living from the scrap metal trade. December in Barcelona can [… read more ]
Starring James Mason as Professor Lidenbrock, the 1959 film of the Jules Verne novel Journey to the Centre of the Earth enthralled a young boy named David Angus, who is now a Portsmouth-based travel writer and [… read more ]
Starring James Mason as Professor Lidenbrock, the 1959 film of the Jules Verne novel Journey to the Centre of the Earth enthralled a young boy named David Angus, who is now a Portsmouth-based travel writer and [… read more ]
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