TheSupercargo’s Travel Blog
[Sticky post] Stops & Stories is my travel blog collecting posts about journeys I’ve taken, places I’ve stopped and about the stories I’ve come across
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Greta with a chainsaw, Cassandra at the flea market
Having the story of Cassandra and Apollo explained to me by a young man while a little girl in Greta plaits plays with a toy chainsaw.
Property pleasure, property porn
My current pleasure is viewing YouTube films presenting property for sale in different parts of Europe, and dreaming myself into the films.
A Day out at the Trollhättan Falls
Photo essay of Trollhättan Falls with pictures and short animation from the Falls in 2022. Includs Mary Wolstonecraft’s 1795 impressions.
Quay of Dreams
A photo essay from a walk in the sun along the Quay of Dreams, where Gothenburg’s dreamers refurbish hulks and imagine sailing away.
Fishcakes my Grandmother made
Rising to a challenge posed by WeAreEurope, I try to recreate the childhood food — “salmon cutlets” — that my grandmother used to make.
Thomas Coram and the Foundling Museum
It was only by chance that Mrs SC and I found the Foundling Museum, but what a fascinating story about charity and children and the arts!
London in the rain: tourists on a bus
Mrs SC and I visited London and did touristy things, including travelling by bus and photographing the city in the rain.
Return to Tema: the search for house and school
Part 2 of The Return to Tema, in which, in 2018, I search for the house I remember living in and the school I attended back in 1963 and 1964.
Return to Tema: the motorway then and now
On the Accra-Tema Motorway: first part of a report on my return to Tema, Ghana, 50 years on from when I was there as a child in 1963-64.
Seven years ago in Brussels, photos from 2015
Seven years ago Mrs SC and I moved to Brussels. I’ve just turned up these photos I took the first few weeks there, never before shared!