This was my third year in a row at Key City Steampunk Festival – and the third time Briax, Judy and Kat (with her daughter) stopped by 🙂 But it was the first year Briax decided to mess with me. Last year, Simon the Laboratory Mouse, packed his bags and headed...
Overhead, a dark shadow passed—a hungry pteryform soaring toward the Thames, ready to fish out a kraken or two for breakfast, their preference for the cephalopods the only reason the city council did not launch an armed force to terminate their presence in the...
We took the City Sightseeing Glasgow Open Top Bus Tour on our first full day in Scotland. It was cold and drizzling, as we’d expected, but that didn’t keep us from climbing to the open top to view the city. Plug in your earphones to a handy jack, and the...
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What is Steampunk? Not just brass goggles, leather corsets and top hats covered with gears and gadgetry – though these certainly have their place. Steampunk is a way of taking today’s technology and re-imagining it through the eyes of the Victorians, a...
There is only one penny-farthing, high wheel bike race in the U.S.A. and it takes place in Fredrick, Maryland. ​ This past weekend I attended the 2016 National Clustered Spires High Wheel Race where participants ride bikes also known as penny-farthings – both...
