So I have be dragging out starting this for what seems like hours. I had better get down to it I suppose.

Today was/is a good day. I enjoyed myself. I went down to the ITV studios in London( Its the building in the picture) to attend a Travel writers Workshop run by Dea Birkett.

It was my Christmas present from my wife and it ranks as one of the best I have ever had.

So what did I get out of it, to be honest at this moment I don't know, it will take me a while to think it through, but initially has given me a belief that I can write stuff that people want to read or at least share.

Originally I had thought I would drive down to London and park somewhere cheap and get the tube into the centre and then reality and common sense ambushed me. I got the train and had a calm and relaxing journey.

There were 15 of us around a table. I did feel very sedentary when compared with some of the others, tales of overland expeditions across continents, writing stories of wild west adventures and proposals of voyages to far flung mid ocean island outposts. Mexico was mentioned more than once. Then Brighton and Eastbourne came into view and to my ssurprise and to an extent bewilderment, Birmingham, that's me I know about that place why do you want to go there. Maybe I should do something I know, that's a thought.

The view, across the Thames, was to say the least in this context, quite inspiring. As the day wore on the morning cloud cover broke up and more and more direct sunlight hit the city lighting it up. Spring is not far away. The churches with their spires reaching to heaven joined and to a great extent crowded out by the high rise blocks .


Finally, because I am running out of steam and it is quite late, for me anyway. I could see the London Eye from out vantage point, but got no good pictures . this was taken from the ground at the end of the day on the way home.

I like it anyway

I enjoyed myself and will probably refer back to this lots.

good night