We committed our first embarrassing faux-pas the day after we arrived. To the abject horror of the woman on the till in our local supermarket, we tried to tip the teenage ‘bagger’. We stood in a jet-lagged stupor, our hands flapping at our sides, not knowing what to do with ourselves, as she put our …
Location update: I’m delayed in Zagreb Airport, waiting for a flight to Dubrovnik. I spent just 36 hours at home and, for most of that, I was comatose with jetlag and trying to get the dog to remember who’s in charge. He’s changed allegiances while I’ve been gone, widely rumoured to be because I don’t …
This entry is a little different to my usual posts. I was asked to write a short guide to Portugal for an American colleague who wanted to spend some time driving around the north of the country with her husband, eating, drinking and exploring small towns. They didn’t want to stay in Lisbon for very …
The hills are alive… The old body clock is totally out of synch and I wake up at 06:00. A strange thing is streaming through the window and after a while I realise that it’s the sun. After a greasy grilled cheese sandwich in a retro diner at an hour I haven’t seen for a …
It was a rare cloudy day in San Diego. The resulting atmospheric pressure was pushing down on my head and shoulders making my head feel heavy and fuzzy, like someone had taken a bag of marshmallows and pushed them, one at a time, up my nose and into my brain. Of course, it could have … Continue reading
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The World Cup is over for the next four years and so this era of blogging must come to a end. As I type, the vuvuzelas are warming up for the team’s homecoming this afternoon. The Dutch team’s performance in the final was nicely summed up by his eminence, Lord Cruyff:…
Anyone who is vertically challenged and who has ever been to a concert in the Netherlands knows that you don’t go to see a band; you go to hear it. The cloggerites are the tallest people in the world and probably in the galaxy and every other galaxy too. So, even if you get to … Continue reading
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