Inside the Travel Lab

When the US occupied the Okinawa islands in southwest Japan, they switched the rules of the road to make everyone drive on the right. These remote Yaeyama islanders did what they had always done: they let the water buffalo choose the route.

Ronnie Scott’s has become a byword for top quality music. At least to everyone I know. Sadly, as is often the case in all things musical, I was playing catch up from the moment I heard the word “acoustic.” So…

I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t tired, but as the security guards shine a torch on my pass and I stride around that corner…

Employing the unfair advantage of being sober, it’s actually quite easy to get near the front. With…

It’s a surreal feeling, to come this close. For although the eyes of thousands are watching him, someone now watches me.

The air in Benicassim throbs with heat, with screams, with expectation. Overhead somewhere, the sky must be thick with darkness but right here, right now…

A brief post to let you know that life isn’t all sad news and HTML code at the moment.