Stories from travels in

Travel

Irish. In Budapest. Next week.

It’s not difficult to be Irish abroad, especially not in Hungary. And especially not during the lead-up to St Patrick’s Day. When he was writing

A hairy-man sandwich

Being caught in the embrace of two hairy men, their arms wrapped tightly around me as they shook me up and down all the while

Upscale street markets in Milan

I have a fondness for other people’s junk. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure and all that. I can’t think of a better way

Prostrate with grief

While on a visit to Milan, to the Cimitero Monumentale di Milano, I was a little taken aback to see a woman, lying prostrate on

The great citizen sell-off

Driving to my hotel from the airport in Malta last week, I fell into conversation with the taxi driver. He spoke English, the language of

A church tour of Milan

Discovering the Chiesa di San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore  was a highlight of one of several visits to Milan. When I was young, very young,

Milan Cathedral

The linguistically challenged person that I am, I have a monolinguist’s habit of reading everything in English, regardless of the language it is actually written

A pervasive sense of style

I might have my issues with China but that said, one of my favourite places in the world to have breakfast is in San Francisco’s