Berlin, Then and Now
Almost twenty years have elapsed since triumphant Berliners cheered and quaffed champagne in response to the announcement that their city had once again been designated the German capital. Yet the...
View ArticleNotes on leaving a small island
For seven years, I was what I used to call an inadvertant ex-pat. I’d skipped off to the US from London because it seemed like a bit of an adventure and, you know, why not? I was unmarried, childless,...
View ArticleGuest Post: Stranger Danger
Growing up in Midwestern America, one of the first school assemblies I can remember being corralled off to was the annual presentation on the topic of Stranger Danger. This talk was carried out with...
View ArticleTourism Is Our Future & Women Should Be At Its Heart
According to the UN Global Report on Women in Tourism the tourism sector, one of the most significant generators of wealth and employment globally, is also credited with providing valuable...
View ArticleConfessions of an Airport Grouch
I’ve never been a huge fan of travelling. I can’t take people seriously when they talk about going away to ‘find themselves’ – I tend to want to point to them and go “Look, look, you’re right here! You...
View ArticleA costume drama with a wobbly bottom
Get your body beach ready! Get your bikini body now! What? Why? My body IS beach ready thank-you, lumps, pale skin, wobbly bits and all. I just want to swim, not to enter Ms South Beach. I’m not going...
View ArticleWhy independence (and independents) matter
Amongst the flurry of Kindle-this, ebook-that and the news that Harry Potter’s taking to the virtual world, it’s nice to sit down quietly with a cuppa and a well-thumbed tome and remember that it was...
View ArticleHeroic Norway Will Triumph
Recent tragic events in Norway brought to mind a wonderful holiday I enjoyed there a while back and just how amazing, resilient and heroic the Norwegian people can be. Here are some of my impressions...
View ArticleGo west young woman, and keep going
Type emigration into google and hit images… guess whose pictures come up en masse? Oh hell yeah, the Irish, a fantastic group of prematourists. We’re very good at it, and I for one am delighted to say...
View ArticleI heart Japan
And so, I found myself completing a circumnavigation of the globe, started nine years ago. Last time I came to Japan it was on a holiday flying westwards from California, where I was then working....
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