Simon Reeve

Bloco Fogo Caught with Olymous e620

During early September, whilst out doing some Christmas shopping in Tunbridge Wells, my son and I heard some drumming!  It’s was a samba band.  We followed our ears to investigate and found Bloco Fogo playing in the centre by the clock tower. Luckily I had my shiny new Olympus e620 with me, in the hope I’d have cause to use it, and I did! After successfully pushing my way through to...

The Old Cinema in Tunbridge Wells

Listening to KMFM the other day brought to my attention a site with some photos of the old and disused Ritz Cinema in the heart of Tunbridge Wells. Fascinating…See here: Ritz Cinema Tunbridge Wells Photos Despite never having gone there myself, I still find it fascinating to see images of what are time capsules. The site is a forum and following the thread for the Ritz Cinema, I stumbled across...

UK and the Snow – irritating News items.

What to do with the snow in the UK. Here in the UK, we’ve had the pleasure of loads of snow. Well I say loads, nothing compared to places such as Moscow. However, it was enough to cause chaos across the UK and the inevitable moany old mutterings of why does it cause so much chaos? Put simply, it causes Chaos because we only ever get snow like this once in a blue moon and it only ever lasts...