A cross posting from my Geography in/on Film blog. Last weekend I headed for Norwich to catch an opening weekend screening of '28 Years Later' - the third in the series of films by Danny Boyle (and others) which started with the classic '28 Days Later'. It explores Britain 28 years after the release of monkeys that have been infected with a 'Rage' virus. This turns people into 'zombies' but not the slow moving ones in the usual films.... 28 Days later (the best in my son's opinion, released in 2002) and 28 Weeks later (released in 2007). 28 years later takes place in a community living on Holy Island, which is partially protected by the causeway which is covered over at high tide. There are quite a few scenes on Holy Island and there have already been people visiting it as it was a location in the film, so this will do the tourist industry on the island some good. They have apparently launched a 'Visit if you Dare' campaign - thought I co...
Always good to have little map 'experiments' / projects like this appearing. Glastonbury's gates opened yesterday. Glastonbury is big. Fifteen years ago today, I was there... in the heat, working with the Geography Collective in the Greek Kids Zone. I've blogged about it before - search the blog for 'Glastonbury'. This map shows you how big, although from my experience it felt quite a lot larger than it is shown here. I think there are other areas still beyond what is shown here - whether car parking or additional camping and the security zone. It's made by Geoffrey Prytherch. Here's Ely compared to the site. And here's one of my images from up near the letters... at night, it looks pretty awesome too. This was sunset on the 24th of June. Image: Alan Parkinson - shared on Flickr under CC license