From time to time, when I have been on a particularly interesting trip, I have written an account of it and shared it with lots of my email buddies. People seem to like them, so I am re-editing them and putting them here - possibly as an antidote to too much serious project management stuff!
April 5, 2023
LISBON, MARCH 2023 We all know about Henry the Navigator, the Portuguese prince who, in the fifteenth century, started the country’s global trails of discovery. Then […]
September 30, 2017
NORTHERN IRELAND, SEPTEMBER 2017 Our trip to Northern Ireland began with a very steep hill, the car gasping up a one in four steel ramp on […]
August 30, 2014
AUSTRALIA, JULY 2014 After our flight from Auckland (see What happened to Wednesday?) Chris and I landed at Sydney’s Kingsford Smith Airport to stay with our […]
July 31, 2014
VANCOUVER AND AUCKLAND, JUNE AND JULY 2014 There are various ways to get from Britain to Australia, and after five years on going over to see […]
August 20, 2012
SCOTLAND, AUGUST 2012 How are you getting on with your Thousand Places To See Before You Die? My list is dwindling slowly but I realised that, […]
March 30, 2012
HAMBURG, MARCH 2012 It’s Germany’s second largest city and full of what at first glance is not a stunning list of attractions. The home of Nivea […]