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Where’s Basil? – Basil visits The Tower of St Elsyng Spital – Brown Bear’s Big Day Out

It was a sunny but a little breezy on the day that Basil visited The Tower of St Elsyng Spital, founded as a hospital next to London Wall in 1331 by a merchant called William Elsing. Brown Bear’s Big Day Out is a story about a bear in a zoo that puts on a disguise […]

Where’s Basil? The Tower of St Elsyng Spital – Brown Bear’s Big Day Out

Basil visits The Tower of St Elsyng Spital, founded as a hospital next to London Wall in 1331 by a merchant called William Elsing. Brown Bear’s Big Day Out is a story about a bear in a zoo that puts on a disguise so that he can escape and visit a funfair called Dizzyland. It’s […]

Glass Night – Dom Bosco Church, Brasilia, Brazil

We had a mad rush through Brazil’s capital when we visited it. We arrived in the morning and left in the evening. It’s one of those cities built in the heyday of the 20th century when petrol and the private motorcar was king, long before climate change was in the news. As such we didn’t […]