Category: Travel Lifestyle

August 8, 2012

Old Friends and Dog Collars

It’s a strange and wonderful thing meeting up with a friend you haven’t seen for a while. Ten years, in this case. There’s that mild...

July 19, 2012

Baggy of eye and saggy of face, I drag myself out of bed, still feeling the impact of farewell drinks the night before, and gear...

June 26, 2012

I was going to start this post by badmouthing my babyfather, always a classy move online, for putting Z on the world’s most antisocial flight,...

June 21, 2012

This is my third time looking for a house to rent in a foreign country, and I’m beginning to feel quite fluent in it. Plus,...

May 31, 2012

“Will you not gasp like that, Mum?” says Z. “You’re embarrassing me.” Even after over two years of travel, the Jeita Grotto quite literally takes...

April 18, 2012

Lounging on cushions, Z high in the mast above, I watch a kingfisher flutter into a desperate hover, plunge deep into the Nile and emerge...

April 1, 2012

One of the things my son and I try to do, as we travel the world, is to celebrate occasions we would celebrate in the...

March 22, 2012

The Sinai desert is a place of many colours. The green palms of desert oases; the rich gold wind-rippled peaks of sand dunes. The wasteland...

March 7, 2012

Like many 11-year-old boys*, even those who aren’t travelling the world, washing does not figure highly on my spawn’s list of things to do. He’s...

March 2, 2012

It’s been ten years since we last visited Dahab. And, though it was firmly on the banana pancake trail back then, the miasma of hippie...