Adam Keyte

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Videogame industry Word-and-Excel jockey (game designer, UX & accessibility advocate, database lover & grammar pedant). Sport nerd & pub quiz bore for fun. https://linktr.ee/etyek

Screengrab from the UK Season of Jet lag The Game. Ben is browsing on his phone while saying “I’m just looking at pornography”. It makes comic sense in context, trust me.
TV advert for holidays in Turkiye with a slogan saying “a piece of art” but the spacing of letters makes the last word look a bit like “fart”. Highbrow, I know…
Stock photo of Arnold Schwarzenegger being shown the inside of a Chinese train driver’s compartment
Screengrab from a YouTube clip of the long forgotten 1990s ITV sitcom Not With A Bang, where Judith Hann cameos as herself, accidentally knocking over some chemicals during a TV show which comedically turns everyone to dust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_with_a_Bang
Tom Scott on stage recording the Lateral podcast.
Photo of the floor plan for Gamescom, which occupies multiple halls of a large convention centre.
Montage of 6 different Olympic torches from recent summer games. Sydney 2000 is white, Athens 2004 is brown & silver, Beijing 2008 is silver & red and has a traditional etched pattern, London 2012 is gold with a mesh design, Rio 2016 is white with dark ribbons looking like waves, and Tokyo 2020 is a blue gold colour.
Sign on a wall reading Olympic Museum
Frontage of Lausanne train station, with an analog clock showing the time as just before 1:30pm, and a sign saying Lausanne Capitale Olympique accompanied by the Olympic rings.
Winterthur rail station map showing the location of platforms, toilets, etc
Sign at the main entrance to Vienna train station, reading Wien Hauptbahnhof with an analog clock face showing a couple of minutes past 2 o clock.
The Church of St James in Brno Old Town. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St._James_(Brno)
Close up of the Pinball Wizard branded machine themed around the 1975 movie Tommy. It shows a map of the British Isles with labels for various major cities. However, the word England is written in large letters diagonally across the top of the map, overlapping both Scotland and Northern Ireland.
A small van parked in a Krakow street, advertising Krakow Pinball Museum, Stradomska 15.
Panorama of Rynek Główny, Kraków’s town square, featuring the large Cloth Hall building.
A Czech railway carriage booth for six people, but all the other seats are empty.
A protein supplies store in a shopping centre in Krakow. The store name is KFD, just one letter away from a certain chicken franchise.
Photo of a hotel sign labelled Arsenal Palace.
The finish of the men’s 100 metres viewed from face in angle, with a flamethrower firing just as the athletes cross the line.
Photo of the women’s 800 metre finish, with British athlete Keely Hodgkinson crossing the line and a scoreboard in the background showing she set the fastest time in the world this year by two seconds.
Wide angle photo of the Śląski Stadium in Chorzow, Poland, looking down at the blue running track.
Video of a 2p coin pusher machine in motion, with many 2p coins balanced precariously on the ledges.
Panorama photo taken from Weymouth pier of the Sun setting over the beach, casting a reflection on the water. In silhouette you can make out dozens of people still swimming or paddle boating in the shallow water, while in the distance a funfair keeps people busy.
Screengrab of Google Maps as I travelled through various small villages with quirky two word names that could potentially be given names in some Caribbean countries. Here we’re passing by the village of Burton Bradstock.
Looking downhill from the bus stop in Lyme Regis down the main road towards the seafront. As is the norm for these traditional towns, it’s a relatively narrow street with three storey buildings on either side offering the usual tourist shops and cafes, with flags and bunting draped between the buildings across the road. Lots of cars are parked on the left side of the road, making it even narrower for moving vehicles to get past, and the narrow sidewalks are filled with people.
Seaton tourist information sign. Too much text to quote but it begins: Seaton sits on the mouth of the River Axe, nestled between the Jurassic Coast and the Axe Estuary Wetlands. It is the home of the Seaton Tramway and boasts many miles of glorious walks and cycling routes. Take a stroll along our lovely beach and visit our friendly independent shops. They are only a few minutes away and it is a gentle, level walk. We have some great places to stay overnight and a warm welcome awaits you if you are looking for something to eat or drink in Seaton. Seaton's history can be traced back to the Phoenicians when they used Axmouth as a major port. There are Roman ruins at Honeyditches, now a scheduled Ancient Monument, with finds at Seaton Museum. The museum also houses a fine collection of local photographs, archaeological finds and period costumes, and can be found at the top of Fore Street in the town.
Blurry photo of the entrance sign for Beer Quarry Caves.
Mark and Lard performing live in Altrincham last year.
Panorama from Sidmouth Beach, with a rock formation directly in front of the camera, and a few hardy sunbathers sitting on the shingle beach to the left. At the extreme edges of the photo, large cliffs can be seen.
Video clip of the Shirehorses song. It’s taken from one of those YouTube videos that just has a static image of the album art, in this case a picture of Mark and Lard dressed as a parody of the Charlatans’ 1990s parka coats and fishing hats.
Coffee shop in Exmouth called The Coastal Beaver, with the punny tag line of dam (spelled without an N) good coffee.
View from Starcross train station, looking across the wide river Exe, over to the town of Exmouth in the distance.
View of the entrance to Teignmouth pier. A couple of children’s rides are at the main entrance that leads to an amusement arcade, and three resilient customers stand at an ice cream kiosk to the right side of the pier. The skies above are grey and cloudy, making it seem later in the evening than it really is.
Photo of Torquay’s Princess Pier, a fishing pier that barely extends beyond the harbour from where it begins. In the foreground, a speckled Larus gull stands on the rocks right next to the camera, probably wondering if I have any food it can steal.
Photo from the window of a bus, looking out at Torbay as our bus is stuck in traffic waiting to merge onto a main road. Grey clouds make it seem darker than it really is, and across the road is a tourist land train, one of those sightseeing people movers common in theme parks where a bus-like vehicle is stylised to look like a steam train, and tourists sit in separate carriages behind the main vehicle and hop on or hop off while the vehicle drives between sightseeing spots.
Video from the far end of Paignton Pier, showing a mini golf course with model dinosaurs everywhere, and a Volvo painted with the Jurassic Park logo.
Close up of the steam train that took us along to Paignton. It’s black and has the number 7827 on the front plate.
View from out the rain covered bus window of Dartmouth harbour. The rain is distorting the image, but you can make out multiple sail boats in the waterfront, and various buildings on the far side of the river a couple of hundred metres across.
Close up of a sign that says Welcome to Plymouth Hoe. Too much text to quote but it begins: History The Hoe dates back to the medieval era when the first settlers arrived. This was long before the exploits of Sir Francis Drake, who played bowls here while waiting for the Spanish Armada in 1588. The colonnaded Belvedere, locally known as the wedding cake' was once the site of a bull-ring where bull baiting took place until 1815. As you walk around the Hoe, it's easy to see why the Victorians enjoyed the views and developed the park during the 1870s. The landmark lighthouse was built by John Smeaton to guard the Eddystone Reef. It was relocated to the Hoe in 1882 and is open to visitors. Present day The Hoe is hugely important to Plymouth as a civic memorial site and a major events space. For current information about events please go to www.visitplymouth.co.uk
Close up photo of my second cream tea of the trip, this time made the Cornish way by spreading the raspberry jam first then applying clotted cream on top. Depending on the thickness of the cream, this can be harder to spread on jam rather than dry bread.
Panoramic photo of East Looe taken from a vantage point on the western bank of the river, including the tree lined hills with lots of guest houses, the harbour wall, and the beach filled with holidaymakers.
Vintage poster for the not-at-all funny seaside town called Looe. Poster is in the 1930s art deco style and shows a picture of the town with holiday homes on cliffs, a beach, and various boats on the river.
Photo of a village name sign labelled Great Tree, coincidentally next to a tree that’s reasonably sized but not huge enough to be called great.
Road sign reading No Man’s Land, please drive carefully through our village. In the background is a stone wall, a green bus shelter, and various bushes and trees common with the English countryside.
Chalkboard notice inside a small village bus stop, which reads Probus Village Notices. The board is very worn from weather and vandalism over the years, and no notices are currently pinned to it.
A small carnival parade walks along St Mawes promenade, coincidentally just after I arrived on the ferry. A brass band is led by a conductor playing music, followed by various people in fancy dress.
Panorama looking due south from Lizard Point, the southernmost point in mainland Great Britain. In the foreground is moss and bracken on the cliffs down to rocks below.
Looking out to sea at St Michael’s Mount on a bright morning with barely a cloud in the sky. The tide is still high, so the island is still cut off.
Clouds darken the sky while looking out over a ship-free Penzance bay.
The Land’s End signpost, which they now charge £11 for a selfie. I’m not paying that much! Signpost reads Land’s End 2025, with milestones pointing in different directions reading New York 3147, John o Groats 874, Isles of Scilly 28, Longships Lighthouse 1 and a half
A seagull sitting on the wall staring straight at the camera. In the background is a large building with a sign reading St Ives Museum.
Looking down onto the Perranporth Sundial, an art installation built for the year 2000 millennium celebrations. In the background is Perranporth Beach.
Photo of Newquay town centre, where the entire pavement as far as the eye can see is one long queue of teenagers waiting for the next bus to take them to a festival.
Surfers on Great Western Beach in Newquay
Photo of the harbour front, with brand name boutique stores including Timberland and Mountain Warehouse visible. This felt jarring to me compared to the other seaside towns I’ve visited this week that are much more independent and locally owned.
Wide angle shot of Padstow harbour, with dozens of seagulls both in the air and floating on the water. In the background are around half a dozen sailboats anchored at the harbour’s edge, and further in the distance are shops and buildings on the harbour front, although the photo is too distant to make out details.
Sign on the side of a white building with text reading Welcome to Bude in English followed by Porthbud a gas Dynnergh in Cornish.
Photograph of the only thing I saw of Clovelly - a welcome sign as the bus passed it.
Video of me walking down a narrow street in Appledore, standing next to a seemingly normal white building, then slowly panning the camera upwards to reveal a large octopus sculpture attached to the top of the building.
A narrow terraced street in Appledore, with each house painted a different pastel shade.