Pick an airport. Spot a passenger with a home-fashioned cardboard tube. Chances are, they’ve been to Cuba. Artists and their artwork are alive and well
It’s not often that I fall for a man just by the sound of him, a man I’ve never met nor am ever likely to
There’s a danger, if you have too little time in Havana, that you only see one of its many sides, and this will largely depend
I couldn’t help myself. I kept looking around waiting to see a blonde, pony-tailed girl in hot-pants on roller-skates serving burgers and fries. From my
I brought back a lot more from Cuba than I bargained for. We won’t mention the extra kilos from the sugar in the mojitos and
The last time I went away for more than 48 hours sans laptop was in 2010. That was seven years ago. Seven years. Every holiday
I’m a great fan of Oscar Wilde and one of my favourite plays is The Importance of Being Earnest. I’ve been known to bet on
There’s a saying in Italian that loosely translates to ‘everything you leave is lost’ – ogni lasciata e persa. Determined to keep the number of
My disdain for planners has been noted. Seeing modern atrocities sitting next to traditional masterpieces does my head in. And yes, I can appreciate how,
January visitors to Budapest commented that the city was sooooo different to the Budapest they’d visited in the summer. And yes, it is. Completely different.
