Reasons to go North

Never again will I look at Degas ballerinas eyes and imagine innocence. Learning that for the less successful the corps de ballet was a...

Paris planned before the attacks. I heard the news driving up the M6 early the morning following. Shocked. There but by the grace of...

Son Doong, the world’s largest cave, Phong Nha national park, Quan Binh province, in the central highlands of Vietnam. There’s a...

I have to leave Vietnam. More accurately I have to go home. I had one of the kind of message we all dread. so my travels have...

Little things paint a bigger picture. Colour only one number and the painting is incomplete. Fill in all those shapes to paint...

Today I am in Huế. Today it rained. Pretty much all day, till after 3.30 at least. Which is when I gave up being a tourist and retired...