Blog | Reasons to go North

I have bananas in my backyard. Thinking of how life is different from my Cumbrian norm, bananas growing outside my window is most...

My ‘reader’ recently emailed me, but what is it really like there? Behind the pictures and tourist trips, what is happening to you? In the...

Last time I pressed the key to post I muttered something about ‘new experiences’. Having moved out to the sort of ‘leafy suburbs’ I need...

A year stretched endlessly before I left the UK, now, suddenly 6 weeks have passed so quickly I feel it will be no time at all...

At first I was doubtful if any Vietnamese lived in District 2, but with a little leg work I found a few. Nuyen Van Huong, traces...

I never thought it would come to this! This is not my idea of ‘going for a walk’ But after four weeks of...