29th January 2020: one year ago today. Pre-Brexit. Pre-pandemic. It feels like a lifetime ago, or as if […]
Travel
After eight years, we’re still not bored with going to Butlins. Here’s why we still enjoy it.
In the years BC (Before Children), Heather and I were keen travellers. We stood atop the top of […]
For a while after Kara was born, travelling anywhere further than the other side of Newbury with our […]
Okay, I’ll admit it, I’d make a terrible B&B owner. If, as former Prime Minister Harold Wilson so astutely […]
In my last post, I reflected on how relaxing a holiday far from the madding crowd can be. […]
I’ve written in the past about what it’s like to go on holiday without access to the internet […]
In years gone by you couldn’t have paid me enough to persuade me to go on the kind […]
Where? Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge, photographed from Mrs Macquarie’s Chair. When? August 1997. What? Two of the most […]
Where? Lucca, in Tuscany in the north-west of Italy. When? 19th September 2005. What? In the ancient Roman […]
Where? Old Chinese Quarter, Shanghai. When? 2nd November 2004. What? In the heart of old Shanghai shortly after […]