Remembrance Day and the Poppies at the Tower of London
Today, the 11th November, is Remembrance Day and while we pay our respects every year, this year is particularly important as it’s the centenary of the […]
Postcard of the Week: The Jurassic Coast
The Jurassic Coast sounds dramatic. It sounds intriguing. It sounds fictional, as if a local mayor with a rather overactive imagination is trying to jazz up his borough’s name to […]
Postcard of the Week: Malta
A couple of weeks ago I visited Malta for the first time. Malta is a small nation of just 423,000 inhabitants in an enviable position south […]
Space Travel, Drug Cartels, a North Korean escapee, the Northern Ireland Peace Process, Inspiration and more at One Young World 2014 in Dublin
Travel changes the way you perceive the world. It adds a new lens and causes you to question things you thought you knew about the world. […]
Postcard of the Week: Ireland
The 2014 summit of One Young World was held in Dublin a few weeks ago (read my pre-OYW blog post here). It was actually my […]
Postcard of the Week: Istanbul
For 2 or so years of my childhood, my sister and I had an au pair from Istanbul. Over the years we had several au pairs, […]
Preparation for the One Young World 2014 Summit in Dublin
I’m writing this while sat in seat 8F on a BA flight over to Dublin from London Heathrow (this photo below is my view out of the window), and the […]
Postcard of the Week: Dorset
The mysterious castle shrouded in mist in this postcard is Corfe Castle, in the Purbeck Countryside in Dorset. A few weekends ago I popped down to […]