Paul Hodson
@paulhhodson.bsky.social
Interested in decarbonisation, cities and how politics and the economy work. Also board games. Blog (travel, games,life): paulhhodson@wordpress.com. Living in London again after 30 years.
I hate to fly because there's no solution to planes' global warming and none forthcoming.
But if you have family who live across the sea what do you do?
To see them I fly. I will at least take pictures out of the window. This shows in the distance the power grid near Incheon and Seoul, Korea.
But if you have family who live across the sea what do you do?
To see them I fly. I will at least take pictures out of the window. This shows in the distance the power grid near Incheon and Seoul, Korea.
November 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I hate to fly because there's no solution to planes' global warming and none forthcoming.
But if you have family who live across the sea what do you do?
To see them I fly. I will at least take pictures out of the window. This shows in the distance the power grid near Incheon and Seoul, Korea.
But if you have family who live across the sea what do you do?
To see them I fly. I will at least take pictures out of the window. This shows in the distance the power grid near Incheon and Seoul, Korea.
This footbridge crosses a main road in central Taipei. The alternative is zebras at street level, waiting nearly two minutes for the lights. Out of a crowd, only two took the footbridge. I know why they built them (in Richmond too, where I live), but why do we hate them, and why didn't they know?
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This footbridge crosses a main road in central Taipei. The alternative is zebras at street level, waiting nearly two minutes for the lights. Out of a crowd, only two took the footbridge. I know why they built them (in Richmond too, where I live), but why do we hate them, and why didn't they know?
October 8, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Running on the beach after sunset last night at Châtelaillon-Plage, France
September 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Running on the beach after sunset last night at Châtelaillon-Plage, France
Woman with a cigarette this morning at a café table in Châtelaillon-Plage France (smoking away from her companions at the table)
September 6, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Woman with a cigarette this morning at a café table in Châtelaillon-Plage France (smoking away from her companions at the table)
Port du Loiron, Angoulins, France, yesterday afternoon. A dozen cabins facing a little harbour, an umbrella pine.
September 5, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Port du Loiron, Angoulins, France, yesterday afternoon. A dozen cabins facing a little harbour, an umbrella pine.
former aluminium works at Portovesme (Sardinia), from the ferry from Carloforte, last month.
July 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
former aluminium works at Portovesme (Sardinia), from the ferry from Carloforte, last month.
Cafe tables in Cagliari, earlier this month
June 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Cafe tables in Cagliari, earlier this month
International train ticketing perhaps taken a bit far - these are the options that first come up when you are in Cefalù (north Sicily) and want to buy a ticket to Agrigento (south Sicily). But, as Jon Worth would argue, better to make it easier than impossible.
June 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
International train ticketing perhaps taken a bit far - these are the options that first come up when you are in Cefalù (north Sicily) and want to buy a ticket to Agrigento (south Sicily). But, as Jon Worth would argue, better to make it easier than impossible.
A man in a side street on the phone (Ortigia, Syracuse, Sicily)
June 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A man in a side street on the phone (Ortigia, Syracuse, Sicily)
Man reading in the late afternoon - Ortigia, Syracuse, end of last month
June 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Man reading in the late afternoon - Ortigia, Syracuse, end of last month
Vermeer's girl with a pearl at the beach café at Petten, North Holland. I love manifestations of this picture (and of the milkmaid, who's actually doing something, even more).
March 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Vermeer's girl with a pearl at the beach café at Petten, North Holland. I love manifestations of this picture (and of the milkmaid, who's actually doing something, even more).
Bonapartiana in a window in Amsterdam
March 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Bonapartiana in a window in Amsterdam
I love this sardonic (Dutch, of course) re-use of the EU's A-G scale.
March 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I love this sardonic (Dutch, of course) re-use of the EU's A-G scale.
Shoes on the Amsterdam metro (if Saul Leiter can do it so, far less well, can I)
March 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Shoes on the Amsterdam metro (if Saul Leiter can do it so, far less well, can I)
Amsterdam metro at the weekend. Travelling on it I felt it was soulless compared with the homely trams - but this photo shows the metro's less homely virtues.
March 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Amsterdam metro at the weekend. Travelling on it I felt it was soulless compared with the homely trams - but this photo shows the metro's less homely virtues.
Brick wall, bikes, daffodils and daisies - Kattenburgerstraat, Amsterdam, at the weekend
March 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Brick wall, bikes, daffodils and daisies - Kattenburgerstraat, Amsterdam, at the weekend
Right through the Rijksmuseum there is a passageway along which bikes pass. Museum directors who fancied this extra space have failed to get it closed off.
March 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Right through the Rijksmuseum there is a passageway along which bikes pass. Museum directors who fancied this extra space have failed to get it closed off.
Quite a few buildings (eg the British museum) have made a roof over a courtyard. I think the Rijskmuseum in Amsterdam, where we were today, has done it well.
March 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Quite a few buildings (eg the British museum) have made a roof over a courtyard. I think the Rijskmuseum in Amsterdam, where we were today, has done it well.
Cyclist leaving Oosterpark in late afternoon sunshine, yesterday in Amsterdam
March 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Cyclist leaving Oosterpark in late afternoon sunshine, yesterday in Amsterdam
Canal bridge in sunshine (sorry for going on about the sunshine, but it's been a long long time) from the no. 14 tram, Amsterdam yesterday afternoon (50s? 60s?)
March 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Canal bridge in sunshine (sorry for going on about the sunshine, but it's been a long long time) from the no. 14 tram, Amsterdam yesterday afternoon (50s? 60s?)
Eurostar going over the viaduct into Brussels Midi station, in sunshine yesterday lunchtime
March 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Eurostar going over the viaduct into Brussels Midi station, in sunshine yesterday lunchtime
Going up to the Eurostar platform, St Pancras yesterday in morning sunshine
March 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Going up to the Eurostar platform, St Pancras yesterday in morning sunshine
Waiting in London for the train to Amsterdam. All the Paris Eurostars are cancelled (old bomb on the tracks at gare du Nord) - means the waiting area is just full, not packed out. I love getting this train but the waiting areas (Brussels the worst) let it down. Anyway, soon be speeding through Kent.
March 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Waiting in London for the train to Amsterdam. All the Paris Eurostars are cancelled (old bomb on the tracks at gare du Nord) - means the waiting area is just full, not packed out. I love getting this train but the waiting areas (Brussels the worst) let it down. Anyway, soon be speeding through Kent.
the stairs at the museum of modern art in New York
January 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
the stairs at the museum of modern art in New York