HeyJaredNorth Sea Nexus
Glimpses into Britain's shared past and present with our North Sea neighbours just across the water.
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Royal yachts, a coveted Rembrandt and drama under the mudflats (opens the original)
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This post is the twelfth in a monthly series bringing together some North Sea news stories which caught my eye this month. This is a newsletter platform, after all.As autumn takes gentle hold, this round of dispatches takes in the regal, the forbidden and the unexpected. All testament to just how much the North Sea still matters.A royal yacht with a surprising historyThe recent announcement of the <a hr
Between the dams (opens the original)
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You can tell a lot about where you are in the Netherlands by the speed of the Intercity trains. These cheery, blue-and-yellow double-deckers race through the country’s Randstad1 with astonishing haste, but the further you get from this bleak centre of gravity, the slower they seem to move. The train north from Amsterdam towards the town of Enkhuizen is no different — unsurprisingly, since Enkhuizen is the end of the line. On the approach we crawl past villages with neat rows of
Yorkshire tuna, rebel monks and Hollywood on the Moray Firth (opens the original)
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This post is the eleventh in a monthly series bringing together some North Sea news stories which caught my eye this month. This is a newsletter platform, after all.As a long, hot summer comes to an end, this round of dispatches takes in the dramatic, the cinematic and a stunning return. All testament to just how much the North Sea still matters.Hollywood comes to the Moray FirthFirs
What it means to know a place (opens the original)
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I’ve been thinking again about what it means to know a place. Yes, maps are good — and I can get lost in them for hours — but other things matter too. The verbal stuff, the knowledge caught by the senses and fed by memory.The ancients who roamed the Mediterranean and beyond had the periplus, literally a ‘sailing around’, prose accounts of coastal journeys and all one needed to know when venturing into waters new: key ports and the distances between them, wind directions, landmarks and the shape
Reasons to look up (opens the original)
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Last night I looked up at the sky and to my surprise it was dark, save for the thin, orange glow of urban sprawl. August is deceptive, especially this one. The hot and burning sun persists, despite the fair distance drifted from the summer solstice. I’ll try to steal another upward glance or two in the coming days, in this, a bumper week for watchers of the sky. The night of August 12th will see the prolific Perseid meteor showers peak under a new moon, an irres
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