Last evening a colleague and I had an absolutely marvellous meal at a restaurant called Bumbles, close to Victoria station.

It is a restaurant with which I have had a glancing aquaintance for some thirty years, and although it …

Judging from the newspaper headlines this morning, the UK is blanketed in both literal and metaphoric snow. There is a lot of the white stuff; the western county of Devon is apparently stuggling under many centimetres of the stuff, …

I like Reykjavík, even in January when it doesn’t get light until 10.00, and is dark by 4.30.

I have to say, that wandering around the streets, and driving around town, there is no obvious sign of economic doom; …

Chicago has to be one of the world’s best sightseeing cities, and yesterday we saw it all.

Well, we didn’t see it all, of course, and in fact only scratched the surface, but probably did as much as one could …

This year I am in England for some difficult family reasons, but it is nonetheless delightful to be here over Christmas. Other than the wild snow and ice of a couple of days ago, the weather has been superb, and …

Well, it has been an interesting week; a collapse of a substantial UK-based charter carrier Globespan, the on/off drama of the British Airways cabin-staff strike, the looming possibility of baggage handlers on strike in the UK and the general malaise …

All travel must come to an end, and it is now over a week since I returned from my journey from Odessa to Tbilisi and Baku.

I have missed posting, and have not done so for a couple of reasons; …

What a remarkable trip. A journey like this, while simple today, would have been almost impossible only twenty years ago when this part of the world was an integral part of the Soviet Union.

To travel within the USSR required …

Twenty-four hours in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku really isn’t enough, but as the morning dawned grey and drizzly, and with the whole of the city to see and a day in which to do it, I ignored the elements …