Excess.
There was a body in the bath. A dead body. A dead woman’s body. The water had drained out and…
Bending the universe
From fish porters to film gods: the men who bent the universe to their will Cary Grant. Richard Burton. Michael…
Another day, another $
It’s not even two months since Trump was inaugurated and the whole western alliance has been upended. His vice president,…
The Pillars of Hercules
We are not tourists. We are living in the frontier town of La Linea, literally ‘the line’ from where the…
The Palermo affair
A dark city has no place for innocents. Ciara made the trip from her farm near Agrigento only twice a…
Top deck of the Clapham omnibus
I am in luck. The front seat on the left hand side in the direction of travel is vacant. I…
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….
Christmas Fayre
Christmas. 2022. It is an especially magical Christmas this year for two reasons: we have my mother-in-law staying who we…
A box full of Pandoras
Malaya. Sorry. Malaysia. I trip over the word because it is, for me, unfamiliar. I do not think of it…