Tram tracks in Avignon. On one side of the tracks is a road, segregated by trees, and on the other is a cycle track and the city walls. The tram tracks are fringed by green grass.

Interior of Monaco Monte Carlo train station. It's an underground setting, with a wide concrete arch punctuated by spotlights. There is seating, ample lighting and some natural wooden materials lining the lower edges of the arch. A regional train has just arrived and passengers are alighting.

A quiet pedestrianized street in a medieval Italian village. There are two-storey buildings either side of the street and a modest church in the distance. The street itself is quiet paved with black slate and a few people are walking in the distance

An arched doorway on a cobbled street in Turin. Some public art on the wall depicts a bronze cast bill bursting from the masonry of an otherwise whitewashed wall.

Europe by Rail 🇫🇷🇲🇨🇮🇹: Avignon, Monaco, Liguria, Turin

Yesterday I was briefly in Manchester to catch some Indian metal in the form of Bloodywood. Incredibly high energy levels and I suspect they'll be playing bigger venues sooner rather than later...

A repurposed old car, painted and turned into a garden growing plants in various parts, with "Sighnaghi" written on the side.

Some goats chilling in the back of a trailer

Modern lattice covering over a bridge across a river in Tbilisi, Georgia

A funicular car leaving the ground station

Hello new followers!

My posts are usually few and far between, but it's a nice prompt to upload some pics of a recent trip to Tbilisi and Sighnaghi in Georgia 🇬🇪

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Profile of Professor Glenn Lyons, "metal professor" with 666 followers

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Why a new book celebrating design legend Margaret Calvert deserves your support A crowdfunding campaign has just launched for Margaret Calvert: Woman at Work, showcasing the career of the iconic British graphic designer. Editor Adrian Shaughnessy explains how it came about and...

You may not recognise her name, but if you live in the UK, you see her work every day.

The exterior of the Stadtmitte underground station in Berlin.

Modern civic buildings on the banks of the River Spree.

View down to the dome of the Reichstag building from the River Spree.

Street scene with cobbled streets, outside seating and bicycles in Friedrichshain, Berlin.

A whistle stop tour of suburban streets and modernism in Berlin 🇩🇪

Narrow, sunny alleyways and streets in the suburb of Albaicín, Granada, Spain.

The Streets of Albaicín, Granada, Spain 🇪🇸

Re: Timeless Child, it'll probably get picked up and summarised without needing to dive into multiple episodes (unless you like them!)

Enjoy!

From the JW era; "Demons of the Punjab" or "Keblam!" are good stand-alone episodes.

The episodes by Maxine Alderton; "The Haunting of Villa Diodati" and "Village of the Angels" are really good but are a bit continuity-reliant

A series of photos illustrating classical and modern high rise buildings on the streets of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

High rise in Buenos Aires 🇦🇷

Different views and lighting arrangements at New Century - a concert venue in Manchester

Four moods at New Century, Manchester

Rooftops, infrastructure and painted walls in Naples, Italy 🇮🇹

Me holding a lager beer on a sunny afternoon in Carcassonne, France, with the castle and city walls behind me.

The modernist Erasmus bridge in Rotterdam, The Netherlands rendered in black and white.

A high speed Thalys train in Brussels, Belgium.

Bloody Mary drink in the Faeroe Islands, a crab claw is pegged on top of the drink, holding a langoustine garnish.

More of this sort of thing to feature...