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...
I've been a bit tardy in posting any details about our last cruise, which was over 8 months ago. One of those tasks I've been meaning to do but never...
With apologies to the original author, but I don't know the provenance of this piece. All I know is that it conforms to my understanding (and experience) of how the...
An original version of this post was published in January 2013, but I thought it was worth updating and re-posting, having just created a travel guide for our forthcoming cruise from...
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