Travel

I’ve seen two cities that look like they were comprehensively destroyed. I don’t mean just ruins,  but places where someone seems to …

Erik von Daniken’s ‘Chariots of the Gods’ came to my town when I was a kid. Alexandra, New Zealand was perhaps a …

Europe to Australasia is long-haul, and if you are not into heroics, it’s nice to break the journey somewhere. I wonder how …

I spotted this little take-away cake shop one evening after getting a cheese fix opposite. Pleasant woman in charge and bunch of …

Estonia was my first-ever experience of driving, by myself, on the right hand side of the road. I tried to keep it simple. All I …

I’ve been making eyes at this place for ages – the dumplings get cooked in an guaranteed eye-catching arrangement on a hot …

I’m not at all sure I remembered when all those ‘stans’ appeared on my radar. Did I know about them before the …

It was on the flight back to UIaan Baatar that I remembered the ghost. My field partner, Nyambayar, and I had been …

I’ve been going to this place since Day-One. Fortunately I had a local with me at that time to point things out. Now …

A trendy (the Andy-Warholesque portraits of Mao on the walls are a sort of hint, not to mention the name) up-market (eye-catching menus) …