Richardmarkwebb

26/02/2026

Notting Hill. Pastel terraces, vintage bookshops, and the slow hum of Portobello Road on a Saturday morning – I think it’s one of London’s most cinematic neighbourhoods.

Once working-class and wonderfully scruffy (I identify) it has evolved into a polished cultural patchwork where Caribbean heritage, independent fashion, and café culture still intersect. Look beyond the Instagram façades and you’ll find its real heartbeat in the market traders, the record shops, and the lingering echoes of the Notting Hill Carnival.

It’s not just pretty. It’s layered.

20/02/2026

Bicycles, cheese and Amsterdam. These things, and more, are reasons to love travel.

16/02/2026

Cape Town reveals itself differently from a Vespa.

You are not sealed off from the city – you move through it. Sea air replaces air-conditioning. Coffee, salt, sunscreen, jasmine… the aromas arrive before the view does.

Traffic loosens its grip. Parking becomes irrelevant. A quick turn becomes an unexpected discovery.

I find myself noticing more – the quality of the light, the shape of the mountain, the rhythm of neighbourhoods I had previously only passed through.

It is mobility, but it is also perspective.

Less rushing. More seeing.

Cape Town, at Vespa pace, feels personal.

And rather addictive.

14/02/2026

There’s something about Land Rovers and Africa. I’ve owned pre-Defender v8s and driven others in Kenya, Botswana and the streets of London. One of the all time greats.

13/02/2026

Go this way, Richard. Go to life, go to vitality. It’s as if this road sign signals me to get up early, to head to the gym (which is on the corner building). These routines help to ground me.

02/02/2025

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06/01/2025

Until recently this BMW 320d E91 has been a fast and frugal companion. Comfortable and still stylish, was this one of the sweet-spots of the 3Series?

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24/11/2023

London showing off again, just five minutes ago as I walked over Waterloo Bridge towards my ‘home station’, Euston. Now for some supper…