I’ve just got back from a holiday in Beijing and Hong Kong. What an amazing experience. I have to say a visit to Beijing did fill me with a certain dread. The spectre of Tianneman Square still lingers, and the offhand treatment at the Chinese embassy (arranging visas) certainly made me think it wouldn’t be […]
Last Saturday my sister celebrated her 5oth birthday. We went bowling at The Lanes. Then we were picked up by bus and delivered to a restaurant in Eastbourne. That’s not the bus ride I’m talking about. Once the meal was over the only way to get back to town was either get a cab, or […]
Well, after about two months of waiting I have finally seen the entire series of Long Way Round – Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman‘s DVD series of their epic 20,000 mile motorcycle journey the wrong way round the world. I saw only a very small part of this series when it played at a ridiculous […]
I flew to Auckland yesterday on business. The plane was delayed on take-off. When we finally made it on board it was revealed that the problem lay in the cabin crew not being able to get the safety video to work! So, the poor crew had to ‘perform’ the safety ritual – but get this […]
While we were holidaying on the West Coast of New Zealand I had the best haircut ever at Murray Glen’s barbershop in Greymouth. Murray had just had his 48th year in business. Murray told me he’s the last barber on the whole West Coast. The salon was jam packed with regulars at 3pm in the […]