An Alternative Writing Retreat
More than three decades after the Chernobyl disaster the soil within the Zone of Alienation is still powerfully radioactive. Despite this, it is still possible to visit the zone. Indeed, tourism is encouraged…
More than 2,000,000 people visit Alton Towers each year, travelling from all over the UK to experience the biggest theme park in the country. Of that vast company, only a small number ever venture into the Gardens, and then usually only to cross from the Dark Forest to the Forbidden Valley in search of more …
Sometimes as he walked, taking long and meandering digressions down side streets and across squares, through underpasses and over raised walkways that spanned like triumphal arches the segments of silent motorway, the architect liked to think that the very formlessness of his wanderings was a kind of pattern in itself…