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The Legend of the Lake, Hanoi
Around the corner is the Old Quarter. Around the corner is the vision of Hanoi [...]
How Lyon’s Secrets Defeated the Nazis
The Cour des Loges Hotel Review As hotels go, the Cour des Loges didn’t need [...]
First Impressions of Burma / Myanmar
It was just before midnight. Our slow procession blinked past the checkpoint, wisps of hair [...]
That Feeling You Get The Night Before Tomorrow
Tomorrow.
Tomorrow it will be too late to plan and too late to pack.
Tomorrow, the dragon route begins…
Kakadu Park: Smoke, Art & Crocodiles
Kakadu. The sound is soft yet distinctive, like a bird call that rolls and unfolds across the willows and the reeds, the waters, the low and smoky air, to reach me on the scrunched and scorched soil. On the earth that is itself Kakadu.
The word…
Breathing In the Atlas Mountains
Sometimes I dream that I am falling. Apparently, everyone does. But more often than that…
Driving in Morocco
It’s an inauspicious start. No map. No SatNav. No cash – my very last dihram cleared out by the unexpected fuel charge.
No internet access to check the route. No signal on my iPhone. Just a pen, a scrap of paper and a hastily scribbled map, uneven streaks of biro connecting Moroccan towns that appeared on a picture in the hotel lobby.
The Berlin Wall – The Unheard Story
The final instalment of the Iron Route Journey. East, West, Good, Bad, Win, Lose, Draw.
Another look at 1989.
The Day I Held the Iron Curtain In My Hand
Sometimes things go wrong in life. The printer at the car hire company breaks, the sat nav doesn’t work, the
Nine Unusual Things To Do in London
What should you do once you’ve seen the classics? With Big Ben, Westminster Abbey and
Hitting the Wall – Reaching Berlin
Eighteen days ago I set out on a journey of more than a thousand miles. It took me through nine different countries, six different currencies, two continents and it strayed both in and out of
Where in the world is Ljubljana? What the #IronRoute is all about.
In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. I was at school at the time and I wasn’t entirely sure what all the fuss was about. Fast forward through the years and despite – or perhaps because of – having studied it briefly, watched the odd Bond film and read plenty of spy thrillers (both fact and fiction,) I’m still not all that sure.
Then There’s Ljubljana…
A Surreal Situation: The Desert At Night
As I type this out, I’m sitting in darkness, my face lit only by the glow of my computer screen. There’s sand beneath my feet
Unusual Paris – Ghosts & Ghettos
I’d been to Paris once before. It was one of those rush around the museums by coach on a tight schedule affairs, one minute looking at bizarre hanging installations in the Pompidou Centre…
The Okavango Delta – On Video
In the world’s largest delta, transport takes place on water. While a few motorised boats cruise along the main waterway, to travel through the reeds, you still need a traditional mokoro…
Horizon Field – Art, the Army & Austria
At 2039 metres above sea level in Austria, someone is watching. One hundred someones in fact…
Get Paid to Travel the World – And Save It
No, I’m not talking about the life of James Bond (or at least, not as far as I know.)
I’m talking about life as a conflict resolution and peacebuilding specialist, a real life job with plenty of travel and overwhelming responsibility…
London: The coolest way to travel…
Emerging from Clapham Junction’s grey and predictable train station, I saw him straight away. A scarlet…
Inspirational People: City Banker Turned Philanthropist
“Mental salvation,” Jean-Marc tells me when I ask why he left his banking job to run a charity full time. He talks about his dismay at the practices in the City in the run up to the crisis. Then he tells me about his son…
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