How I Found my House in the Magical Spanish Mountains
Posted in Voyages12 mn read I started my Spanish adventure in 1997, just as Tony Blair ended 18 years of Conservative rule with the slogan ‘Things Can Only Get Better’…
12 mn read I started my Spanish adventure in 1997, just as Tony Blair ended 18 years of Conservative rule with the slogan ‘Things Can Only Get Better’…
11 mn read The route to Italy began when my daughter came home for the weekend with a copy of an advertisement that she had found in the Sunday Times ‘Lonely Hearts’ section….
4 mn read I am shocked by the extent to which I’ve rationalised what lockdown has made of me…
11 mn read Some of my earliest memories, growing up as a child in inner-city London, involve walking. Walking everywhere…
8 mn read Who would have expected to learn so much about death and beyond from a cat? Then again, who would you learn from?
16 mn read Recently, my son Marlon and I went travelling together in Senegal. We were, it turns out, a bewildering combo. One rarely witnessed, if the reactions were anything to go by.
5 mn read During my teenage years, growing up Melbourne, Australia during the 1970s, travel was never far from my mind.
4 mn read I first experienced being naked in public in my twenties, when I went to the Greek island of Ios with a girlfriend…
7 mn read I’m talking personal development here, not a coffin or a chutney-making one. These emotion-evoking workshops are all about transforming oneself in order to go out and transform the world. It starts with the self and expands out into the world. That’s the idea – love, love, love.
8 mn read How do you go from fantasizing about travelling to actually boarding a plane and letting your dreams take flight? You’ve been imagining travelling to a dream destination for years, but how do you make that leap from reverie to reality?