Travel

Postcard from Florida

My simplistic view is that the east coast of the US is quite close and the west coast a jolly long way away, and so I…

Postcard from Svalbard

The best way to appreciate the geopolitical significance of Svalbard — an archipelago on the Arctic circle — is to look…

Dear British Airways

I seem to be on some kind of British Airways target list, because frequent travellers, their best customers after all, are…

Postcard from the Namib desert dunes

It hadn’t really occurred to me until this visit to Namibia, that there are — in people’s minds…

Postcard from a desert road

(I need you to have one of those PlayStation games in mind, one of the car racing ones over rough terrain at…

Postcard from Namibia

Often the closer you are to someone the more rivalry you feel, especially if the other person is a little older or more successful. So it is with countries, where neighbours compete fiercely. With the Rugby World Cup in mind, you can find a Welsh guitar-playing rugby supporter on YouTube…

Postcard from Tokyo

If Heathrow airport were as far from London as Narita is from Tokyo, it would be on the outskirts of Portsmouth. It’s…

Postcard from Prague

It’s a little unusual perhaps, that while Pamela and I have been to the Czech Republic many times — in my case perhaps 30…

Postcard from Cyprus

It’s been hard over the last few years to avoid news of Greece’s economic woes. Its cousin Cyprus has reportedly been hit…