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My Top Three Christmas Presents Tickets to the Santana Concert at the O2 in June Tickets to the Birmingham Ashes Test Match in July Invitation to Lunch at York Arms Christmas Breakfast Renu and Nick cooked the late morning breakfast at Wray Crescent. We ate Nick’s home-baked granola with blue berries and yoghurt, smoked salmon…
This year we spent Christmas with the family in London. The drive from Harrogate was eventful with the alternator in the car failing 30 mts. in to the journey forcing us to return home to get a courtesy car from Stratstones – the BMW agents in town. Then manual BMW X1 was an unused to…
Buying A Guitar In Granada On Tuesday morning we went to Granada to buy a flamenco guitar. We took the scenic route from El Canuelo through the Zafarraya Pass to Granada and lost our way only thrice. Lisa de Granada Lisa was waiting for us on Paseo de Bomba. She is an American who has…
I took the early morning flight to Malaga. Nick and Renu met me at the airport. We drank coffee, added my name to the list of authorised drivers of the rented car and drove to Torre de Mar. At La Mata on the Autovia de Mediterraneo we turned right and headed towards Torre de Mar.…
My daughter wrote from El Canuelo, near Periana, in the hills above Malaga. “Just waking up from a lovely deep sleep and from my bed I can see the pinky orange of the morning horizon, stretching over the blue and sleepy valley. Not yet fully light at 8 o’ clock. No sound apart from a few birds…
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Today is International Mothers Day. These are images of toiling mothers captured during my travels over the years in different parts of the planet.
In February I joined a group of Sri Lankans travelling to the northernmost point of Sri Lanka. This has only been possible since the end of the bitter civil war between the Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan government in 2009. From Jaffna, where we were staying, the big blue coach snaked its way north…
World Wildlife Day was on 3rd March. This wildlife gallery is a belated celebration of the event. The images were captured by me on numerous trips to some of the wilder parts of the planet over the years. I hope you enjoy it.
…soak in liquid Viagra, have a free lunch, laze the afternoon away on the beach, watch the sunset and eat great ice-cream in the evening… Jaffna in Northern Sri Lanka is not exactly Rio but has its own quiet charm. Here are some of the things I enjoyed in one day during a…
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