The Pillars of Hercules
We are not tourists. We are living in the frontier town of La Linea, literally ‘the line’ from where the…
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Sipping daiquiris at the shady end of the pool
Stolen moments make a daiquiri taste sweeter. Sipping one at the shady end of the pool when you are being…
Miley Sur – the taxi ride to Om beach
I had to fly down from Shanghai to Mumbai and then a short flight to Goa. We flew via Taipei….
Journey to the centre of the earth
The centre of Tanya and my world is our children. Always and forever. They are the Alpha and Omega of…
The way you look tonight
We had originally pulled up at a Spa which promised the danger signs of modern amenities. This wasn’t what we…
Mid-winters eve – the festival of Montol
Today is the shortest day of the year. The winter solstice. It goes unremarked in most places, but not at…
Englishmen in New York
From an environmental point of view, I wasn’t scoring any Brownie points. The flight across the Atlantic from Miami was…
Ionian blues
England is green. And Australia, in the main, is sunset dirt orange. But Greece is blue. There is not a…
An early morning walk around the Vietnam War
We’ve just had the biggest psychological and military defeat in the west since the storming of the US embassy in…
The drive to Rhonda
The detour is the best destination. I have learnt this. The surprises, the wrong turns, the impulse decisions, the left…