During reading week the first year Geographers took to Catalonia, to cary out human fieldwork in Barcelona and physical fieldwork in Sitges. Johannes Wittig also took the opportunity to take a series of epic photos from his Phantom 3 advanced drone. This aerial shot of the beaches at Sitges with its prominent groyne sea defence won…
A Summer of Snakes and Sea Turtles
Known for their montane cloud forests and tropical rainforests, the Neotropics is home to biodiversity that’s very different to what I’m familiar with back home in South East Asia, in the Paleotropics. It was for this reason that I chose to spend my summer in parts of Central and South America – to experience a…
The Big Smoke vs. The City of Lights
In this article, Zenia Khajotia presents the argument for London to take inspiration from Paris in its continued efforts to uphold its reputation as a ‘world city’. If London is to fulfil Boris Johnson’s dream of becoming the ‘best big city on earth’, it could actually benefit from learning a few things from its close neighbour,…
The Bloomsbury Geographer 