An Englishman Abroad

An ex pat Brit living abroad. Travel, food, art, design, fashion, and more.

[allthingseurope]

Venice

[sometimeslondon]

The Thames Barrier at Silvertown, London

Whilst industrial things sit more happily on LondonEdge, to my mind, the Thames Barrier is a work of engineering beauty and so it can sit here on Sometimes London. It is hard to believe it was actually designed back in the 1970s. It became operational in 1982 and has been put into action over 200 times since then saving London from flooding which would have caused horrendous hardship and countless billions of pounds worth of damage.

[allthingseurope]

Menton, France (by Max Ofmars)

[typewriter-post]

[pansexualrevolutionary]

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[outlawpetegsc]

Gillian Anderson.

[rideinternal]

[pangeen]

" Madeira Landscape " //© Karol Nienartowicz

[voguelovesme]

Gemma Ward by Greg Kadel

[overclassy]

[unexplained-events]

Faces carved into the walls of the Paris Catacombs

[m3n4c3v35537]

Frenchmen be like “this pitch black cave full of skeletons is not scary enough, I must make it worse”

[der-ewige-retard]

[throatoftheworld]

Saint Michael Triumphs over the Devil by Bartolomé Bermejo, 1468

[cuntyskinny]

[antheque]

[7pleiades7]

Lady Godiva (1890) by Jules Joseph Lefebvre (French, 1836 – 1911), oil on canvas, 62 cm × 39 cm (24 in × 15 in), Musée de Picardie

[cocorossss]

[lovesthe1980s]

Kim Wilde

[pmamtraveller]

Dreams by Norman Rockwell