This is Not a Holiday

Part I - Lagos Hello from Lagos, Nigeria! With only a few days left now until I board that succession of silver birds back to the loving...

Readers of my last blog, who did not immediately unsubscribe after reading it, will be pleased to hear that things have improved since I...

And now let’s go over to Nobby in the box for the halftime report… I’m now exactly halfway through my long-awaited sabbatical, although...

Gibraltar, Winter, 2000 Standing atop the famous rock, while waiting expectantly for one of the wild barbary apes to attack an...

Well, it actually happened. I went to Antarctica and returned, a changed man. I’ve seen things. Penguins, mostly. And icebergs. At the...

Ushuaia, 5th Nov 2019. It’s taken me two straight days to get from Sydney to the southernmost city in the world, lodged in front of the...

FRA vs BEL 10th July I’ve never been a huge football fan, not since I was eight years old. I wouldn’t even describe myself as a...

My first night in Oman - I'm sitting on a dhow, second in a row of eight tied to a quay. They're bobbing gently, the only noise their...

[Short of time? Read the Haiku instead] Yes, you read that right – a titanium straw. “That’s a bit ridiculous”, you might think at first...

I'm a TV Star! Okay, so it's the most remote TV station in the world, with probably one of the least number of watchers, but it's a...