The holiday was fantastic, to be honest i can’t really remember much before. Portugal is a great place, the food, the people, the coast and the weather. It wasn’t all plain sailing as there was a little rain around and plenty of cloudy skies, but...
At first, it truly is an unsettling experience to think that not only can you not read or understand the words, or, as in most countries can simply have a good guess based on a rudimentary knowledge of Latin and a bit of school boy...
What a interesting place…..but what a nightmare to move around…taking the taxi was an interesting experience especially as i didnt have the right currency when i got to the hotel, but as with everything in moscow, it can always be negotiated for a price!! and...
Sometimes they say a change is as good as a rest, although in this case I’ve had both a change and a rest. When I first set up the blog I thought taking a furry Lemur (roger) with me would be a great idea. I...
Who saves the most time of all ….. As a true Yorkshire man value for money is part of our DNA. “Beer always tastes better when it’s free” ….however value rises exponentially when you combine low cost, with the return of the most precious commodity on the planet,...
Why I use a duffel bag for travel ……. The story of my duffel bag obsession starts in a very strange way….laying prostrate on the living room floor after a particularly bad back spasm. Whilst the thoughts of how to carry stuff around wasn’t immediately at...
There are events in your life that make your heart pound, make the adrenaline course through your veins to a point where thinking, for a few moments at least, becomes almost impossible. These feelings are perfectly natural, in fact they are essential . The reaction...
I never imagined, as I danced, badley, to “Never gonna give you up” at Nicola’s nightclub in Halifax (with the rest of the 5th form!!) that Rick Astley would have such a profound effect on my later life. So much so, that he has, to...
Why Blackberry played an amazing role in my travel, and why the king is dead, long live the king. Lets go on a bit of a reminisce….from the start of my road warrior career, 1992, the mobile phone was part of every road warriors life, so...
Let me firstly apologise for a post which seemingly has little or nothing to do with the general theme of things, however the events of the last 3 months, combined with today’s Radio 5 live morning debate show, have brought me to this point. The...