FACES OF YEMEN, FEBRUARY 2026
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Yemen – Of Frankincense and Mocha, February 2026
The next part of my journey has been to put feet on the ground and explore from the other side of the Red Sea in
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DJIBOUTI – The little country directing traffic, February 2026
And so I am on the move again on the African continent and made a whistle stop at the little country of Djibouti on the
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Mediterranean Magic, Tunisia, October 2025
Part 2 of the Maghreb chronicles finds me in Tunisia – a breeze to travel through and noticeably more liberal. Things have taken a distinctly
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Maghreb Magic, Algeria, October 2025
For my latest adventures I have reconnected with an old friend Grace to explore some of the Maghreb – or western Arab lands of North
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Hiking the Rila and Pirin Mountains, Bulgaria, July 2025
The Bulgarians always seem to be the bad guys in international crime novels- I was picturing heavy-set, surly henchmen of organised crime. However the warm
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Serbia not Siberia! April 2025
And so I have book- ended another conference trip in Europe with a brief exploration of new territory, flipping a coin and landing in Serbia.
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Egyptology A Crash Course, Egypt, February 2025
I’ve never studied history as a subject but instead have been steadily piecing together the stories of the world as I have travelled it. As
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Of Cars, Cigars and Bars, Cuba, December 2024
Cuba… where do I start? The Grand Old Dame now shabby was once the Paris of the Antilles. A Spanish colony with an invaluable geographical
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Caribbean Sailing, Grenada, SVG & St Lucia, December 2024
It has been a week of sailing aboard the Royal Clipper stopping at ports around the Leeward southern islands of the Caribbean. Generally setting sail
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Hoist the Sails, Barbados, December 2024
Well I’ve made the quick hop now over to Barbados to join my sailing trip for the festive season. Like the backpacker of old I
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