Exploring a Bigger World

For the first time I was travelling with Lufthansa via Frankfurt because I was flying from Birmingham.  It was a…

Sint Maarten or SXM, which it is confusingly referred to on maps etc, is an island a lot of celebrities…

When you cross over the border from Kyrgyzstan to Uzbekistan, the first thing you notice are cars and then the…

Think of towering snowy peaks like something out of a fairy tale, vistas that extend as far as the eye…

Cairo is full of cars, broken, belching, beeping cars, bumper to bumper – a jumbled slow moving frenzy of we…

I would definitely recommend Vietnam.  They did not really open up to tourism until the 1990s, but are now working…

I haven’t got a lot to report.  I have just got back from a week in Gran Canaria which was lovely…

It is now nearly the end of March.  I used to write to all my friends/family every month.  I don’t…

  South India lived up to my expectations.  In some ways it was less spectacular than North India, but the itinerary…

I went to visit Althorp this weekend.  This is the ancestral country estate of the Spencer family.  I had an…

The canal boat The boat looms large in lockdown.  I can honestly say I learnt to drive a narrow boat…

We seem to have reached some sort of equilibrium about / on the boat I don’t fully know what has…