Photography
Hot cross buns!
Hot cross buns!
One a penny, two a penny,
Hot cross buns!
If you have no daughters,
Give them to your sons.
One a penny, two a penny,
Hot cross buns!
(traditional Nursery Rhyme)
Fresh and spicy: hot cross buns still warm from Ravens Bakers in Preston Park, Brighton. Traditionally, hot cross buns were only baked as treats on Good Friday. We now get ours the day before - Maundy Thursday - as there’s usually a long queue on Good Friday for these because they’re hand-made and scrumptious!
Cambridge ahead by more than a length at Hammersmith Bridge
Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race 2025
Rowing Eights on the Thames are a wonderful sight and sound: athletes working as a team. I was lucky to see the winning overtakes by Cambridge Women and also Cambridge Reserves; Cambridge Men’s boat had already pulled clear of Oxford before Hammersmith Bridge and also went on to win. Oxford have more uniform style amongst the oarsmen but Cambridge’s greater individualism is clearly a winning strategy.
Of course it’s about winning (Go Cambridge!) but it’s also a day out, either in the organised Fan Zones or the vernacular picnics on the Surrey station, ie the Putney/Barnes bank of the Thames: strawberries and fizz with smoked salmon dips or just beer and BBQ treats. Today’s total crowd estimated to be more than 300,000 people.
April showers after the Men’s boats had passed cleared the banks but sent many on to a Post-Boat-Race party.
Crowds and solitude: the calm at the end of the day in Menton on the French Riviera.
The three-kilometre-long exuberant Boulevard de Garavan, lined with fragrant trees and hanging from the cliffs, takes a contoured and panoramic route from Menton Old Town to the border with Italy at Pont Saint-Louis. .
Sylvain Jaffret was the architect of the Boulevard de Garavan, where the mountains meet the sea. Construction started in 1882, completed in 1888. The people of Menton soon nicknamed it the “Babylonian dream”. The Boulevard de Garavan continues to attract the world’s elite to its heavenly setting with mild winters
More photos: Architecture of the “Babylonian dream”: Boulevard de Garavan, Menton
Place Notre-Dame du Mont, Marseille
Cours Julien, Marseille
Six views of Marseille sixth arrondissement today.
