Permanent Tourist

The personal website of Mark Howells-Mead

Posts from 2017

  • A spring-like day and an afternoon stroll around a little village on the shore of Lake Brienz.

  • The desk at my third employer in Switzerland isn’t in as nice an office as the white-and-red-brick one at Burson-Marsteller, and the view – of a car park and dusty four-storey apartment block common to the Breitenrain district – isn’t a patch on the one I had of the lake and the mountains in Brienz. Nevertheless,…

  • In 2016, 27% of all of the websites on the internet were powered by WordPress. That’s 8 times more than Joomla, 12 times more than Drupal, and 70 times more than TYPO3.

  • There are a few ways to apply CSS styling rules to an element. Each one is less or more specific than another. Applying a rule using a class selector when you’ve applied a different rule using an ID selector won’t work. Batificity isn’t the CSS specificity guide you deserve, but the one you need right now,…

  • A short post to help anyone who is looking to implement a responsive HTML imagemap, which also features an interactive highlighting function.

  • Grindelwald by night – a timelapse

    A overnight timelapse of the view across the valley from Grindelwald First.

  • Gretna Green, Scotland

    The small town of Gretna Green, which lies alongside the M6/A74M on the border between Scotland and England, is one of the most popular wedding destinations in the world.

  • One man, one camera, 6,000 miles

    The Perimeter is a photography project by Quintin Lake, based on walking 10,000km around the coast of Britain in sections. The journey started on 17th April 2015 at St Paul’s cathedral.

  • Lauterbrunnen to Grütschalp

    Time-lapse video of the cable-car ride from Lauterbrunnen to Grütschalp in Swiss canton Bern.

  • Christmas lights in London

    Another compilation of time-lapse sequences in London by Mattia Bicchi, which (as usual) makes me miss the city and encourage me to try and fit in a weekend there.

  • Ullswater, Cumbria

    Ullswater, at last

    Perfect photographic conditions on the shores of Ullswater in the Cumbrian Lake District last week.

  • Not a resolution

    We all need people in our lives who raise our standards, remind us of our essential purpose, and challenge us to become the best version of ourselves.