Travel: Scilly island hopping, UK
The one where I went island hopping and kept a Scilly diary… Friday 11am. Newquay airport. Can smell sea and already feels like holidays. Arrived along…
Travel: Chelsea Harbour Hotel, London
A menu with the choice of eight types of pillow on which to rest your weary head. A view out of your window that offers…
Copenhagen, probably
Copenhagen. Probably the best city in the world. A confident assertion, based on the advertising slogan of a very successful export and written in huge letters…
A Mauritian idyll
Once upon a time a small, fat, stupid, flightless bird lived on a beautiful, volcanic, island fringed by some of the world’s most beautiful white sand…
Travel: Lie back and think of New York
I’m on a plane but something is wrong. For a start, I do not have a complete stranger’s elbow in my ear and another passenger’s…
