Weekend away at the Keswick Country House Hotel in the Lake District
Last week I published a couple of postcards I picked up on my trip to Keswick a couple of weekends ago, in the Lake District. Keswick Country House Hotel […]
Postcard of the Week: The Scottish Highlands
Last week I headed up to the beautiful Ardverikie Estate in the Scottish Highlands with about 13 others, for five days of fresh highland air, an escape from the […]
Postcard of the Week: Keswick in the Lake District
This weekend just past I travelled up to the Lake District in the north of England, to Keswick, a town previously unknown to me entirely. Having grown […]
Postcard of the Week: Skiing in Switzerland
It’s that time of year when you find yourself bombarded by status updates and tweets from lucky friends who are off skiing through fresh powder snow. It feels like […]
The Marathon Tourist
I’ve discovered that there’s a type of person who travels around the world to voluntarily take part in 26 miles of extreme sightseeing – to run marathons. They call […]
My weekend jaunt around Boulogne-sur-Mer and the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region
England and France really are very close together. I only discovered this with my own eyes a couple of weekends ago, when I took a P&O ferry over to […]
DTour Part 4: In & Around Hotel Maya in Long Beach
After a jaunt around San Francisco on Wednesday afternoon I flew to Long Beach, which is just south of Los Angeles in southern California. And I arrived […]
Cape Town Part 4: Surviving My Shark Encounter…
I’m pleased to say that I have bravely battled no fewer than 12 great white sharks and I have lived to tell the tale. And […]
The Well-Travelled Postcard 