Any Excuse to Travel

Stories from travels in

April 2014

The other five million

Of the 11 million said to have perished in the Holocaust, five million were not Jewish: they were Roma, Jehovah’s Witnesses, university professors from the

The graveyard school of life

A dead man here. Another one there. This one in his 60s. The other in his 80s. Beloved father, husband, son. An inevitability. Yet to

A slice of Communist pizza

I’m all for quirky. Give me somewhere different, with a twist, over conventional design any day of the week. Throw in some good pizza and

2014 Grateful 39

It’s very easy to get into a rut, to do the same thing day in, day out. Comfort zones are attractive because they are …

Budapest – I’m sorry

I like theatre. I like the stage. And I’ll even confess to liking musicals. When I lived in London, I went twice a week. I

No foolin’

I managed to get through the whole of 2013 without succumbing to the many invites from Young Malcolm to join one of his IHBC hikes.