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)

The Secretive Bilderberg 2013 Meeting in Watford, England.

Taking a little break from my travel countdown, today I am going to be writing on an extraordinary meeting taking place just a mile or so from my home in The Grove Hotel, just outside Watford, England. For several day a mix of Western politicians, bank bosses, corporate billionaires, chief executives and European royalty are… Continue reading The Secretive Bilderberg 2013 Meeting in Watford, England.

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)

2013 Annual Cheese-Rolling Race!

This past Bank-Holiday Monday saw the weird and wonderful calendar of oddball traditions and activities in Britain move to Coopers Hill in Gloucestershire.  Though the world media concentrates on sporting events such as Wimbledon, Badminton Horse Trials, Sailing, Formula 1 and The Open what most of us are interested in are much more low-key events… Continue reading 2013 Annual Cheese-Rolling Race!

New book launch Planes Traines and Sinking Boats + Special Offers and Competition give-away!

Today is a big day, the official launch of my second book!  Planes, Trains and Sinking Boats: My Travels Through A World Of Mishaps is a humorous travelogue. I originally started writing it for two main reasons; the first is that writing my first novel Let Me Help was very challenging.  It was an epic… Continue reading New book launch Planes Traines and Sinking Boats + Special Offers and Competition give-away!

Terrrorism returns to London as brave passerby potentially saves many lives.

Yesterday the lunch time news in Britain was headlined by the successful conviction of an IRA terrorist who in 1982 killed 11 people and 7 horses in a twin bombing in London’s Green and Hyde Parks.  By 6pm, a new act of terrorism had taken over the news. At about 2.20pm on Wednesday 23rd May… Continue reading Terrrorism returns to London as brave passerby potentially saves many lives.