What do you look for in a place that shouldn’t be missed?
Redundant buildings with interesting new uses, places with literary or celebrity connections, hidden city gardens and parks, intriguing public art, unusual sporting venues, independent museums, specialist shops, and so on. I’m particularly keen on atmospheric historic locations where you can really sense the unique
genius loci, or spirit of the place. I also like to highlight the human stories behind the stones of the buildings and monuments.
I treat the texts as 111 short individual essays, giving some background context to each place as well as packing in as many intriguing nuggets of information as possible.