


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: 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: 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 […]

Postcard of the Week: Countryside Market Towns in the South of France
Villefranche-de-Rouergue is not a town I had ever heard of before. I imagine most of you won’t recognise the name either. It’s hidden deep in the […]

The Latest Addition to My Packing List: a UE Boom speaker
A couple of weeks ago I found myself in the remote rural French countryside of the Midi-Pyrénées region. It’s an area I’d never visited before and […]

Cycling through the countryside around Ubud in Bali
Back in May while we were in Ubud in Bali (here’s my blog post about Ubud), we went on a cycling tour of the countryside and it was one of […]

Traditional Britain summed up in 5 Greeting Cards
Wandering through the Christmas Market in the grounds of Winchester’s atmospheric Cathedral, I stumbled across a wood hut selling the cutest paintings in a very particular style. They depict […]