So we’re in Cartagena, still. Cos its lovely. Still. Or perhaps, ‘again’ now the cruise ships have left leaving behind a distinct lack of hats and hundreds of thousands of dollars for the local economy, so they’re not all bad. Part of the charm of Cartagena is that it was a Spanish fort. Which still – Read More-
I have friends who ‘cruise’. I admit it. People I know and consider ‘close’ are among those who like to spend two weeks a year trapped in an immense floating city with about 5000 like-mindeds. Though I’m not sure there is too much mind involvement at all. And whilst there they will be given 9 – Read More-
Its not easy being an intrepid international explorer, forging new frontiers, breaking new ground, creating new barriers and discovering places and peoples that no-one else knows about! Its like finding out that there is actually life in Leicester, but in even more exotic and surprising places. And the reality is, of course, that we arrive – Read More-
Buy a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day; show him a rock and he can spend a lifetime… doing stuff with it. Because that’s what you do with rocks the world over. You look at them, you film them, you watch them at sunrise, check them out at sunset, admire them at – Read More-
So its all been a bit quiet on the Columbia front, you may have noticed. Because my current lurghi has meant I have two distinct and exclusive modes at the moment. I’m either travelling or sleeping. Nothing else. I go see a city, or a coffee plantation or, yesterday, a cloud forest and then, I – Read More-
Are you familiar with the word ‘schvach’? Its yiddish. Its pronounced ‘shvu’- then a ‘ch’ in the most guttural you can manage. Like all yiddish words still in common usage, its fabulously expressive and can mean 200 different things. All of which, in this instance, relate to ‘weak’ or ‘feeble’ or inadequate in some way. – Read More-
We love a winter holiday. Mel ‘needs’ sunshine because she’s SADS and I ‘need’ to go with. To carry the bags. And buy water. Loads and loads of water. So come Christmas time, we’re gone. And because you need to go far and wide for sun at this time of year, we book early. To – Read More-
Yesterday morning Spurs were in 7th place in the league, just behind (fucking!!!) Burnley and with a resurgent Leicester creeping northwards up the table behind us. That was horrible. 7th place is not nice. And with not even a UEFA place for 6th place this year, 7th is… just shit. I know, I know, there – Read More-
Everyone’s talking about Bitcoins. Shame we didn’t have conversation a decade ago when they were worth nothing and 100 dollars’ worth bought then would now be worth about $1.6 billion. But no. They told us it was a ‘fad’. That it was a way for money launderers, dark webbers, drug dealers and arms buyers to – Read More-
I’m going to talk about the weather. Because I’m British. Its what we do. But normally its about the likelihood of rain, the possibility of sunshine, the incoming winds from Siberia. I want to talk about proper ‘weather’. Weather with a !!!! Like yesterday weather. Because snow does fall in northern Europe. And here’s the – Read More-