Category On The Beaten Track
It’s A Drag…..
I have been skiing twice in my life, once in Bulgaria and once in Romania. My ski style can best be described as unique and I still bear physical and mental scars from the experiences! As both of my alpine adventures took place in Eastern Europe, I included a few paragraphs in my book On […]
Kotor, Montenegro
Lonely Planet has just proclaimed Kotor as the number one worldwide city must see in 2016. I visited in 2007 and indeed can vouch for the fact that the place is amazing. Probably the most convenient way to visit is to fly to Dubrovnik in Croatia and then take a bus ride of around a […]
When saying no is a cause for celebration……
Today is ‘Ochi’ day in Greece. Parades to mark the day that Greek PM Metaxas said a firm “No” to Mussolini have been celebrated in Greece ever since the end of WWII. I was lucky enough to see the Ochi Day Parade in Thessaloniki in 2008. Here is my account. ‘Next day was a special […]
Angst in Ankara Station Part II
Regular readers of this blog will recall a book extract that I published a couple of days ago about our train journey across Turkey to Syria in 2009. On that trip my travel buddy Hamish was (thankfully only temporarily) separated from his passport for a while at Ankara Station, leading to all sorts of palpitations. In 2014 […]
Angst In Ankara Station Part I – Extract From My Book
The story starts as we were travelling to Syria from Istanbul in May 2009……. Calm Before The Storm We had a 4 hour stopover in the Turkish capital so set off to explore. First we needed coins for the lockers, but were one short. Luckily an upright English teacher called Neil came to our rescue. […]
Moldovan Arrival – An Extract From My Book
To set the scene, Hamish and I had just taken the overnight train from Bucharest to Chisinau…… Disorganised & Disorientated We arrived in the Moldovan capital in what can only be described as a severely groggy state. The hard seats had not given the most comfortable of nights and there had also been people constantly […]
