The UK and humans

The UK is rich in history, rich in geology.  There are ‘historical’ UNESCO World Heritage Sites such as Stonehenge and Avebury and ‘natural’ World Heritage Sites such as the Jurassic Coast in Dorset and Devon.  You travel around and it’s all highly visble.
What isn’t visible, but for some even more remarkable, is the story of humans [...]

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Webtogs

There are loads of retailers in the UK who sell outdoor kit.  Over the last couple of decades it’s become big business and this is only set to contiue owing to increasing awareness of environmental issues, high energy prices keeping more people within the UK, the continued move of outdoor gear from niche into mainstream [...]

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World Heritage Sites and Roads

If you stand on The Ridgeway National Trail and look down at Avebury Stone Circle or if you walk Stonehenge Down and look back towards the henge, you can imagine what it must have been like to live in this area around 5000 years ago.  These are important places.  UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
So why oh bloody why [...]

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Search query: ‘Areas of high tourism in the uk’

picturetheuk has two websites.  The first is the public site www.picturetheuk.com and the second is an admininstrative site.  To us, ‘admin’.  This ‘admin’ site has a section that tells us where people are coming from, eg Google, Yahoo, blogs etc.
Today, a visitor to picturetheuk was referred by Google having searched the term ‘Areas of high tourism in the [...]

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Google, travel and new websites

‘But how will people find you?’
You build a website, tell someone about it and they invariably ask ‘but how will people find you?’
Quite right too.  There are many answers including word of mouth (or the ‘viral’ word), formal marketing methods such as PR, advertising through display ads (the banners and boxes you see splattered all over the net) [...]

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Sheep

As you travel around counties in the south west of England such as Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, you see sheep.  Lots of sheep.  You also see beautiful cream brick villages and towns and country houses.  And there are the elaborate churches and chunky public buildings and you wonder where all the money came from, how they afforded to build all [...]

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This other Eden (3): Dover Castle

Drive along the south eastern coast of England and it’s clear we’ve had a violent past.  Roman forts and medieval castles, Napoleonic towers and modern bunkers.  All there, all highly visible.  Especially Dover Castle, glowering at France. 
A steep road runs parallel to the castle’s outer walls and then cuts left through a tower.  The road climbs again, past the [...]

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Lists and maps and needles in haystacks

I once sat on a bus for about 24 hours travelling north from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.  On the map, I hadn’t moved very far.  It’s a big place.  The same 24 hour journey here in the UK would easily get you from the tip of Cornwall (England) to the top of Highland (Scotland).  The UK [...]

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3D via lots and lots of photos

Some interesting work being done on maps at the moment.  In short, taking photos and stitching them together to create 3D representations of places.  Allowing people to visualise locations if you will.  Still think editorial and social content are the solution to the problem of visualising, recommending and discovering places before you visit them but this work will certainly [...]

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This other Eden (2): Elgol

By car, from mainland Scotland, the A87 takes you past one of Scotland’s most famous attractions, Eilean Donan Castle.  The road continues through the Kyle of Lochalsh, over the bridge and onto the Isle of Skye. 
A little further on, there’s a smaller road on the left at Broadford which journeys around Loch Slapin (with spectacular views of [...]

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