On Behalf of Self-Employed People Everywhere, Can the US Hold the Election Tomorrow?
Like many people around the world, I find the multi-car pileup that is the 2016 American presidential election at least as addictive as the gif...
Category: Wibble
This Is Not a Celebratory Forties Post
I remember how very old I felt approaching 30. And, with hindsight, I’m sure 42 will come to seem equally young, equally naive. Yet, like...
Oh to Describe the Teenage Years!
More from a surfeit of material than a lack, I haven’t been blogging much of late, although my desktop is cluttered with half-finished posts. That’s...
The Cheapskate’s Guide to Travel
Many, many articles on the interwebz purport to detail how to travel for free. Newsflash: you can’t. You can spend money to earn points, spend...
The Elephant in the Room at TBEX Asia
A travel blogger requested on Twitter that I write something about the political situation in Thailand, rather than merely “trolling” by sharing links about the...
Because Sometimes International Data Comes in Very Handy
I have an odd, and vaguely woolly attachment, to life without a smartphone, and life without data. And that’s not only because whenever I spend...
Ten Things Travel Writers Do That Folk Who Are on Holiday Don’t Do
I’ve written before about how fundamentally unglamorous it is to be a freelance writer. There are also many ways in which writing about travel for...
The Seven Types of Language Speaker
Native English speakers are a peculiar bunch. Blessed with the world’s dominant language, many of us will pass our entire lives without needing to use...
I Gave up Smoking Six Weeks Ago. When Do I Start Feeling Good, Again?
For more than a quarter of a century, I was an absolutely dedicated smoker. A two-packs-a-day, anytime, anyplace, anywhere smoker. A smoke-ring-blowing, lighter-stealing, ashtray-filling semi-professional...
Parents: You Might Want to Show Your Spawn How to Navigate an Airport
I went to Singapore for lunch the other day, as you do. Well, more specifically for a visa run – visas, as I have remarked...