Introducing North American journalists to Georgia is fun!

As you probably know, Georgia, at the eastern end of the Black Sea, is one of my favourite countries in the world. Tbilisi, its capital enchants, Svaneti and Tusheti are two …

Can you travel too much and suffer from The Travellers’ Curse? Perhaps I am!

The Travellers’ Curse, as it is widely known is a curious phenomenon. I was minded to think about it after reading a piece in a blog …

The Great British coast line is a most unusual and interesting place.

It is long; 11,073 miles, with a “wiggliness” factor, more properly known as the Hausdorff Dimension of 1.25. This is wiggly indeed, and by comparison, the Australian coast …

The Future of St Helena

Here is where I engage is some crystal-ball gazing, allow myself to snatch snippets of conversation that float aimlessly through the air, reinterpret other conversations and simply draw conclusions from my long, dull and probably …

The interior of St Helena is dark, mysterious and fascinating

Creeping through the thick cloud-forest, wishing that I had brought a machete, wiping the rain from my eyes and the perspiration from my face, I was wondering how I …

Visiting St Helena – An Astonishing Island

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 …

RMS St Helena – Nautical but Nice

“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 …

On board the RMS St Helena. A truly magical journey

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 …