Category: Travel Blog

  • May in a brightly crisp Blighty

    There’s one thing I noticed about Cornwall is that the light is brighter. I thought it was my imagination until I was enlightened by a wonderful German fella called Chris who happens to be a photographer.

    Chris said it’s because Cornwall is surrounded by sea, the water reflects light back at all angles in a way that you get such vivid light on the Greek islands, so whites are really white and blues radiate vibrancy. It also lifts the spirits but without you really knowing why, it’s just brighter.

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  • Burnt Out

    What amazes me about the car in this picture is how little of it is left after being burnt out, and how (more…)

  • The Perfect Spring Day

    Paris is gloriously sunny this weekend so I updated a few websites this morning, then headed up (more…)

  • Springtime in Paris

    When I found my seat on the Eurostar I found a family of four were occupying all of the four seats in a cluster including mine. What happens is that one kid goes free so the train company just doesn’t give them a seat, no wonder people stop breeding. I felt so guilty about turfing a kid out of my seat that I went and sat in one of the corridor seats near the luggage. This inspired people to come and visit their baggage at regular intervals as a loitering fellow in the luggage bays is a sure sign of mischief.

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  • Parrots in Streatham

    I was missing the tropics so much that Streatham decided to chuck in a few parrots and voila, pretty polly here flew up into the branches above my head just by the Drewstead Road entrance to Tooting Common.

    Apparently there are oodles of the critters around, I just don’t look up enough.

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  • Back Again

    I arrived back to London on the morning of the 14th of Feb with nothing but a short sleeved shirt to keep the British winter out. I took a few of the blankets from the plane and wrapped myself up on the journey home looking like Clint Eastwood in my Ozzie hat and blankets.

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    Its not long before I was back into work mode with my head down, raising my head above water to look around and wake for a moment.

    I decided to go to Cornwall to shake off this desire to work and frolic in the spring waves.

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    Then down to the the wye valley where the spring starts.

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  • Remote Working

    Travelling and working is not a new thing, we used to have (more…)

  • And to London Town I go

    And so from the perfectly groomed little airport on Tioman I head back to an orderly Singapore where even the buildings have giant numbers so they won’t lose themselves. From there I get on the 23.25 plane to London and a winters chill. I’m looking forward to it really as I have been away for long enough.

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  • Tioman Jungle Trek

    At the North end of Salang Beach the footpath winds up past an impressive abandoned bungalow complex. I say impressive becuase the bungalows cling to the steep slopes teetering on high thin legs and actually blend into the hillside quite well.

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  • Jungle with gorgeous beaches

    I love the fact that Tioman has a heart of solid jungle that can be explored, but must be respected. I spent a long time on Koh Tao in Thailand but found the fact that it had evolved from one vast coconut plantation had left it featureless in it’s interior, but Tioman still has the monkeys, monitor lizards, butterflies snakes and everything that goes with this hemisphere and location.

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