Category: My Journal

  • The colours of London

    If you’re in London right now then we can agree on one thing – it is a bit cold and miserable. Before Christmas the cold, dark evenings have a certain romance about them. It is the frosty nights before Christmas, where lights twinkle and lovers scurry through the streets huddled together against the cold. But…

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    Walking Prague

    Once Christmas is in the bag people’s attention turns to New Year and the next round of festivities. This year S and I decided to escape the usual parties and head away for the arrival of 2018. We hopped across to Prague for some days wandering the cobbled streets and wrapping up against the cold.…

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    Shall we give the usual resolutions a miss?

    I don’t hold with New Year’s Resolutions. They are often knee-jerk reactions or changes you would have made earlier if you wanted to. Mark Twain summed them up best in this piece, which I found courtesy of the truly wonderful Letters of Note website. So I am going with a few simple lifestyle changes for…

  • Happy New Year

    Wishing people Happy New Year on a blog like this always seems tricky – so I am going to keep it simple. I am leaving the photos to good old Instagram and their #BestOf2017 and I will simply raise a glass to each of you and a year well spent. Here’s to 2018. #travel

  • Diving into Christmas

    Christmas is here. I will keep this one pretty brief and just wish you all a very merry Christmas. I’m back with my folks for the day. In our house Christmas involves engaging in the classic festive pursuits of eating, drinking, relaxing, opening presents…and diving into the pool. Well the opportunity arose and it seemed…

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    Getting your sh*t together

    “They’ve got their sh*t together and that’s very attractive.” I was having a chat with a friend the other day. We were discussing a mutual acquaintance who my friend was fairly taken with; on top of the traditional attributes my friend was particularly impressed by the fact the person in question had their life in…

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    Big Fish at The Other Palace

    Last night S and I popped to the theatre for one of the most unexpectedly brilliantly shows of the year so far. We almost forgot we had bought tickets for Big Fish at The Other Palace. We booked them on a whim a while ago and were suddenly reminded about them when we saw an…

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    The day we did Bake Off

    The Great British Bake Off has the nation gripped once more. It turns out that even if you change the channel and some of the presenters the formula still works. If you think about it, that is a bit ironic for a cooking show since often if you change a few ingredients the end result…

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    Working the Riviera

    Welcome to the Riviera. This week I have been mostly mooching around the Cannes waterfront. Unfortunately this was not a pleasure cruise and the amount of the waterfront I’ve seen is very limited. Every year the duty free industry descends on Cannes for it’s biggest show. This was my first trip to the exhibition. I…

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    Coming to the stage…just!

    I am, as I think I’ve mentioned, quite comfortable on stage. I’ve blogged in the past about doing amateur theatre in my spare time and “shrinking violet” is not an epithet which has ever been attached to me. But this was a bit different. Every year the great and the good of the travel retail…