An excerpt from my fictional book Drip by Drip set in South East Asia. This passage describes the book protagonists arrival into Phnom Penh.
Number 5 – Train to Georgia You may well know by now that I love an overnight train journey – throw in a dining car with fabulous views too and I am completely bowled over! In 2015 I travelled to Georgia from Istanbul, taking a train to the edge of the Kurdish region of Turkey […]
My number one travel experience is a very personal one, which involves a site that had almost mythical status during my childhood. You see, on June 8th 1957 my parents were married at St George’s Church, Tanglin, Singapore. I was brought up on tales of how they met in the army, got engaged on Christmas […]
Everybody loves a castle or a fort. We imagine knights on horseback, lowering the drawbridge & portcullis, a battering ram, catapult, perhaps even crocodiles in the moat. The truth of course is that they were brutal places. Built to be impregnable, usually somewhere high up, they could reign terror on any attackers – arrows, boiling […]
The capital of Rwanda is full of surprises. The colourful district of Umutima affords great city views, some eclectic street art and an array of colourful produce.
Caribbeans have a reputation for being laid back, personified by reggae & weed. Cubans definitely buck that image as hardworking & resourceful citizens, although of course they love their music & dance. However Cuban dance is far more rigorous than its Jamaican counterpart. Salsa owes much of its roots to Cuba with rumba, cha-cha-cha, pachanga, mambo, and many […]
A beautiful young Syrian girl who enchanted me on a train from Aleppo to Latakia in 2009.
I ❤️ Norway. After last year’s weekend in Stavanger it was Bergen’s turn this year. I had been twice before in 1992 & 2022 but this did not detract from my latest visit, this time with my big sister. We packed a lot in. Thursday afternoon This was spent reorienting and visiting the World Heritage […]
