Bath Place — a 17th century watering hole in Oxford

We landed in Oxford with no specific plan, other…

Belfast — Where the Titanic was built

The nightmarish flight from London (avoid Stansted airport, if you can!) to Belfast ensured…

Carrickfergus castle and my old stamp album

Carrickfergus castle, built way back in AD 1177, is one of the first things that you…

In Calcutta, in search of the childhood home….and beef

The London Skyline

There is hardly a better place to get a ‘free’ view of the London skyline than the top floor of the Tate Modern, which…

Sunderbans — masked and unmasked by the tides

Here begins many a journey, some on the way back to their slowly sinking homes…

Mousetrapped in year no.66

We managed to catch Agatha Christie’s ‘Mousetrap’, the longest running West End show, at the St.Martin’s…

A day of celebration in Dublin

We reached Dublin in early August on a day of unprecedented celebrations for Ireland. A day before, their…