The Most Beautiful City in the World
Barely ten minutes after landing at Marco Polo airport in Venice, I was swinging my bag onto a wooden hulled speedboat piloted by ...
Vegetarians – An Inconvenient Truth
Red meat is good for you. A team of respected mathematicians examined the same research that some vegetarians used to convince peo ...
A Night in Colombo
It’s my first visit to Colombo since the terrible Easter Sunday bombings. The nation has been here before - for 26 years of civil ...
I Just Want Stuff to Work!
British Airways flight 183 was taxiing for takeoff from London’s Heathrow Airport. It was 8pm and I was bound for John F. Kennedy ...
The Chelsea Flower Show, Brexit, and Women Leaders
My nostrils twitched as I entered the Chelsea Flower Show. The pollen count was overwhelming. The old chap next to me sneezed so ...
Martini Mandate in Cape Town
Click on the map for a list of our favourite haunts in Cape Town ...
Firing Up the Environmentalists
I was passing through Oxford Circus when I found the road blocked by protesters from Extinction Rebellion; environmental groupies ...
In Memorium
A Hymn for Ceylon 🇱🇰 Jehovah, Thou hast promised The isles shall wait for Thee; The joyous isles of Ocean, The jew ...
My Fok Maralize: cycling and tales from the Cape
If you are a keen cyclist then the Cape Town Cycle Tour (aka Cape Argus) is likely on your bucket list. Boldly conceived as a non ...