Pitch Black in Coober Pedy

Location spotting Down Under. Everyone should try fossicking in Coober Pedy. Sounds rude but actually it’s quite innocent – it’s the hunting for opals in the spoil of opal mines in a remote town in central Australia. Sadly I didn’t make my fortune but I did find a spaceship… Back in 2007 I travelled a … Continue reading Pitch Black in Coober Pedy

Then came the night of the first falling star

Few people I’m sure have romantic notions of Woking, even less will have a visit there on their bucket list. But I don’t think many people will appreciated it as one of the locations featured in the one of the earliest science fiction novels ever written - The War of the Worlds by H.G.Wells, first … Continue reading Then came the night of the first falling star