Seven cities, 24 days and 334.7 kilometres of walking through the different landscapes that coexist within World Heritage Cities.
When I started Beyond the Postcard, the idea seemed relatively simple:…
16/Sep - 20/Sep
Nice felt like an appropriate place to end the journey because, perhaps more than any of the previous cities, its World Heritage story is about encounters.
Amsterdam…
13/Sep - 16/Sep
Bern was perhaps the city where the relationship between heritage and landscape felt most immediate.
I arrived in the late afternoon and, rather than heading directly into…
10/Sep - 13/Sep
Strasbourg felt different from the cities that came before it.
In Amsterdam and Bruges, water had been central to the way I understood the historic city. Brussels…
6/Sep - 10/Sep
Luxembourg was the only stop on this journey that did not feel entirely like an arrival.
I had lived and worked there before, knew parts of the…
03/Sep - 6/Sep
Brussels was the first city on the journey where I struggled to understand what exactly I was looking at.
Amsterdam had its canals. Bruges had an unusually…
31/Aug - 03/Sep
After Amsterdam, Bruges felt almost like a change of scale.
I arrived by bus and was immediately given a choice: around twenty minutes by public transport or…
28/Aug - 31/Aug
Amsterdam was the first stop of my Beyond the Postcard journey, and an appropriate place to begin asking what it means for a World Heritage City to…
Beyond the Postcard is my OWHC Young Travelling Scholarship project across seven World Heritage Cities: Amsterdam, Bruges, Brussels, Luxembourg, Strasbourg, Bern and Nice.
The project looks at heritage not…