They say travel broadens the mind. It can delight and frustrate in equal measure, but it certainly alters your perspective on the world (and where you come back to). Here's some accounts of trips I have made which I hope are fun to read. Your reflections on the same places are probably quite different to mine - but that's what travel is about, isn't it?
12-May-2016
VIENNA, MAY 2016 If anywhere could be described as over-palaced, it is Vienna. It has loads of them, parked besides parks, surrounded by fountains and gravelled […]
30-August-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 […]
31-July-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 […]
20-August-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, […]
30-March-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 […]
15-January-2011
BOSTON, JANUARY 2011 One weekend I went to a wedding in Boston… as you do. That’s Boston. Massachusetts, not Boston. Lincolnshire. The wedding was of a […]