Category: People

Canals, Amsterdam.

Our Genial Host

I like X immensely. He’s our host in Amsterdam, largely because I misread his advert and thought we were renting his entire flat, and in...

Gelato in Jerusalem

“Ooh,” Zac says. “Now I need to make a decision. Waffle or gelato. Waffle or gelato?” “No, you don’t,” I say. “This place does both!”...

French Conversation

The resort beach at the far end of town has some rather fine windsurfing on offer, and I figured that, with the water relatively warm...

Little Bedouin girl with her great-grandfather in a village near Petra, Jordan.

The Friday Photo: Bedouin Girl

This is Anoud, 2, with her great-grandfather, Mohammed, 93, looking at a picture of him in his British Army uniform from World War II. They...