Ninety six miles from the outskirts of Glasgow to the heart of Fort William (I need to buy my dog a GPS tracker, it was probably 196 miles for her); and amazingly it was t-shirt weather nearly from start to finish – and early enough in the year for there to be no midges. The […]
After many trips I’ve decided that few people get up early in India – in my case and in Mumbai it may have something to do with heavy nights in Colaba Social or Leopold Cafe (if you’ve never heard of Leopold’s you should read Shantaram, everyone should read Shantaram). But as usual it pays dividends […]
What’s to do in Barcelona in February..? Well, like any world city, lots – there’s the football, if you can get a ticket (top of La Liga again); all the Gaudi architecture, including the Sagrada Familia – the “new” cathedral – where the builders have already been on-site for 141 years; February isn’t exactly beach […]
I don’t know what she’s seen, she was investigating the snowdrops a minute ago – but there’s definitely something.
I’ve used that heading for this same place before but this time it’s definitely winter and there isn’t very much sun – just 50mph wind and rain to go with it. So watching the weather forecast and taking my chances with a break in the cloud is the only option; and just occasionally I get […]
Mid-December and surf’s up in Scarborough. The air temperature is zero degrees but the water is a balmy 9.5 – swimming makes sense then. There are plenty of wetsuit-clad Yorkshire folk bobbing around on surf boards, waiting for the perfect (any) wave and some hardy paddle boarders – but she’s the only pup in the […]
There’s a lot to be said for sitting around in bars and cafes – there’s a drink and something to eat in front of you and you are out of the cold (or out of the heat in this instance) – and when my camera comes out I’m invisible, or at least tolerated. Most importantly, […]
Chicago, whether your interest is jazz or the blues, football (the sort that takes three hours for sixty minutes of play), baseball, small independent craft breweries, the shopping, the restaurants & bars or hanging out by the lake shore – apparently there are even museums and art galleries; the evocative and defining thing about Chicago […]
I’d been watching this field as the wheat grew, there’s a good picture here, the dog peering out above the growing, gently waving crop. But in the harsh dry summer they have harvested early – climate change I guess.
It’s pretty difficult to spend time in Lisbon and not notice the trams, there are sleek modern ones now but Line 28 takes all the attention – inaugurated in 1914 and still running vintage trams from the 1930s. There is method in this, the route climbs the city’s hills through narrow streets and the oldies […]