Postcard of the Week: The Royal Palace, Madrid
One of my favourite past-times is losing myself in a daydream inside palaces, castles and stately homes. I start to imagine myself gliding through opulent room upon opulent room, […]
Postcard of the Week: Map of Southern Africa
I can’t claim to have been to even a tiny percentage of the area shown on this illustrated map covering Namibia, Botswana, South Africa and Lesotho. I have merely […]
6 Reasons Why My British Passport Is My Most Valuable Possession
Almost 7 years ago my friend Libby and I were backpacking around Cuba at the beginning of our gap year. On a bus from Havana to Viñales we got […]
Postcard of the Week: King’s College, Cambridge
I visited Cambridge for the first time last December, during the academic Christmas holidays, and was very disappointed to find out that both King’s College and its chapel were […]
Night Trains: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
You don’t come across too many night trains any more – they’re all going bust due to budget airlines and everyone’s desperation to get to their destination as fast […]
Postcard of the Week: Madrid
My first Postcard of the Week from Madrid! I’ve been here 10 days now and so far it’s entailed: settling into my new flat, starting my new job, meeting […]
London’s West End: Review of Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense
This winter in London I really got into the theatre – the buzz of excitement among theatregoers in the London’s West End just before a […]
Postcard of the Week: Singapore
Singapore was the last leg of a 4-month, 7 country trip around South-East Asia on my gap year back in 2008. We only spent 3 or […]
Bienvenida a Madrid!
I’ve moved to Madrid! Or more accurately, I am writing this while hovering 30,000 ft somewhere above France, in the plane en route to Madrid, at […]
The Well-Travelled Postcard 