Category: Travel

100 Places I Want To See Before I Die (50 – 41)

Celebrating the publishing of my new travelogue Planes Trains & Sinking Boats I am continuing my countdown of top 100 list of places I want (and wanted) to see when I was a student.  The world has changed quite a bit in that time and there are plenty of places that I could go to… Continue reading 100 Places I Want To See Before I Die (50 – 41)

100 Places I Want To See Before I Die (60 -51)

Celebrating the publishing of my new travelogue Planes Trains & Sinking Boats I am continuing my countdown of top 100 list of places I want (and wanted) to see when I was a student.  If you missed the countdown so far you can click on the links to read 100-91, 90-81 , 80-71 here and… Continue reading 100 Places I Want To See Before I Die (60 -51)

100 Places I Want To See Before I Die (70 -61)

Celebrating the publishing of my new travelogue Planes Trains & Sinking Boats I am continuing my countdown of top 100 list of places I want (and wanted) to see when I was a student.  In the intervening 15 years or so, some of them I have seen more than once and others remain and remind… Continue reading 100 Places I Want To See Before I Die (70 -61)

100 Places I Want To See Before I Die (80 – 71)

Continuing with my countdown of places that I really want to see to coincide with my new travelogue book, here are places 80-81.  You can see my list from 100-91 here and 90 -81 here. As mentioned earlier in the week my new travelogue Planes Trains and Sinking Boats is now also available as a… Continue reading 100 Places I Want To See Before I Die (80 – 71)

100 Places I Want To See Before I Die (90 – 81)

Continuing with my countdown of places that I really want to see to co-incide with my new travelogue book, here are places 90-81.  You can see my first 10 here. Also a bit of new news on my books.  Planes Trains and Sinking Boats is now also available as a paperback on Amazon USA and… Continue reading 100 Places I Want To See Before I Die (90 – 81)

100 Places I Want To See Before I die (100-91)

To coincide with the launch of my new Travelogue book, Planes, Trains and Sinking Boats    I am going to briefly write about my 100 must see places.  I won’t call this a bucket list as I only travel to places I really want to see, crossing off a list of locations just doesn’t do it… Continue reading 100 Places I Want To See Before I die (100-91)

The beautiful, magical Silver Swan Automaton at The Bowes Museum

Every now and then when you go travelling, you come across something out of the ordinary.  If you are very lucky, you might see something unique and quite amazing, the Silver Swan is such a sight. The Silver Swan Automaton is housed in the Bowes Museum, just outside the small but pretty market-town of Barnards… Continue reading The beautiful, magical Silver Swan Automaton at The Bowes Museum

In the footsteps of Lawrence of Arabia

Hopefully you will have read the previous post about the classic epic  movie, Lawrence of Arabia, it’s not entirely necessary but it sets this post in perspective. I came to Lawrence through the film and after watching it, you do get a good idea of what he must have been like.  Lawrence was also a… Continue reading In the footsteps of Lawrence of Arabia

Qasr Amr – pleasure palace of the Caliphs

Qasr Amr is located on the desert road to Azraq and only a short distance from Iraq.  It is possibly the highlight of the chain of desert castles built in eastern Jordan.  It was built by Caliph Walid I around 715AD.  As the name suggests it was originally part of a castle but now all… Continue reading Qasr Amr – pleasure palace of the Caliphs