Category: Travellers Tales

It’s time to bring the saga up to date. When we last left our heroine, she was prostrate in Canterbury Hospital, and I don’t mean the one in Sydney. No, Paula had managed to...

We’re a bit limited on the communications front at the moment: Christchurch is a city almost devoid of wi-fi hotspots, so most blogging is off-line and Paula and I feel particularly cut-off. Our iPhones...

Well, here we are again at Sydney Airport, off on another adventure. Some things change (at last, KSF has a departure area that doesn’t look like a slum), some don’t, but the most interesting...

Saturday was our last day in London, before we headed down to Tonbridge to spend some time with Jan. It became the great day of overdoing things, as we has left the V&A and...

Strictly, this should be two separate entries: one for the show on Thursday night (15 Jan) and one for Friday’s walks; but they all seem to me part of one large portrait of London....

This is the first entry for two days: I didn’t tell the story of the trip from Avignon, but the new TVGs are something that you have to experience for yourself. Seeing a whole...

This was a funny day and unfortunately Paula’s email was the perfect summary. As I claim some contributory rights, I am going to quote it here as soon as we get back – I...

Monday 12 January brought with it a reminder that we are only a week from departing home – ah, the joys of Heathrow and the torture tube! It was time to get our roller...

I’ve reached the stage of the trip where I’m hanging out for a beer and English TV. This must mean that it’s time start thinking of England, even though we have travelled to the...

It’s Saturday night and we are both bushed, not because of the day — which was uplifting and hilarious at once — but because the last hour of our journey back to Lyon in...