Not long now until we welcome Post Floyd Dream (a Pink Floyd tribute band) to Stansted for The Great Gig in St Mary's Church! You will Wish You Were Here...
Dubrovnik, the 'Pearl of the Adriatic', situated on the Dalmatian coast, became an important Mediterranean sea power from the 13th century onwards. Although severely damaged by an earthquake in 1667,...
Celebrity Cruise 22nd January 2023 to 14th February 2023 The Adventure Summary This was a holiday of contrasts; a 12-day cruise calling in at various ports around the North and...
My (now) famous wife Lynda, been inundated with media requests over the past few weeks for comment, interviews (radio and TV) on the topic of 'Champing'. Never heard of it?...
Cruise on the good ship Braemar (Fred Olsen line) - with ultimate repatriation from Cuba due to Covid-19 Itinerary (in theory!) 27 Feb La Romana, Dominican Republic28 Feb Santo Domingo,...
Cruising on the Oceania ship 'Insignia' We arrived in Tokyo on Saturday 30th March, after a long (a tad under 12 hours) but uneventful flight. I got talking to the...
Boris Johnson's special adviser Dominic Cummings has urged “weirdos and misfits” to apply for jobs in Downing Street ahead of a planned shake-up of the civil service. I think I may qualify; here's my...
Cruising on the Oceania cruise ship Sirena, 11th September to 22nd September 2017. We took a flight from London Heathrow to Venice where we boarded our Oceania cruise ship, the...
As a manager, I've had to do my fair share of performance appraisals, which (as I'm sure the employees also found) was a pretty tedious and meaningless experience. Fortunately I...
Apparently there is a world-wide epidemic of 'Zombie Smartphone Users', which I can quite believe based on my infrequent sojourns into London. A smartphone zombie is a pedestrian who walks...