Travelling for eight days for a four-day business trip, and then spending eight days wending my way home does seem peculiar in this day and age; as I write this, ensconced in a …
“The RMS” as she is fondly known, is an odd ship; built in 1990, it was probably old fashioned before she was launched, and she remains the lifeline for the remote and …
Five days ago I boarded the RMS St Helena at a distant and apparently little-used dock in Cape Town, and today I am sitting in a guesthouse in Jamestown, the Georgian capital of the remote island of St. Helena.
One …
It is very odd to be here, on a working ship, miles out into the South Atlantic, with an expensive and intermittent wireless access’ of course, having any access …
Even by my own rather peripatetic standards, 2014 has started off to be a year of much travel. It is the first of July, and in the first six months of the year I …
There are strange places, remote places and surprising places but, in my humble experience, very few strange, remote and surprising places. Adak is most certainly all three and more.
Lying at …
Let me be the first to reiterate powerfully that I love trains; I would …
I realise that I have a lifestyle that borders on the unusual, and for that I am grateful. I am able to wander, see odd and disparate places, meet …
I try not to be silent for so many days, but honestly, a combination of Georgian hospitality and the fascinating people of the International Wine Conference have led to a temporary paralysis; one that I am …