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Category Archives: Travel

More trouble at London City Airport

July 1, 2019

  Contrary to appearances on this blog, I do not spend most of my time hanging around the security queue …

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Criminal activity at London City Airport

March 19, 2019

I have a pusher.  She is with me when I am arrested. You can tell a pusher at once. They …

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Zurich to London

August 13, 2018

I am preparing for my twice-delayed repatriation on the 12 May. Despite my daughters’ and Swiss doctors’ remarkable efforts to …

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Engelberg to Luzerne Kantonsspital

August 13, 2018

5th March, 2018. I’m going too fast.  The snow, in the shade of the mountain for the last 40 minutes, …

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The perfect suicide – in Kos marina wash-room.

March 23, 2017

    So there I am, a couple of nights back, in my little cubicle, light on, rubbing myself down …

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Give me my driver’s licence!

July 28, 2016

We were in the chora on Amorgos, an island known for its incredible monastery, Hozovioeissa, built into a cliff face …

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Canaries in Thasos

July 10, 2015

They say that London is three meal-times from violent revolution, by which I think is meant that if for some …

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It’s all Greek to them

July 3, 2015

The man at the front of the queue turned, rolled his eyes and said something to the rest of us …

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Possibly the nicest people in the world

May 5, 2015

The deal was done. The non-stick scratch-resistant griddle thing with many magical properties was ours. The Mafiosi-faced man had explained …

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Flexibility in Sciacca

February 24, 2015

I arrived late, un-booked. ‘You can pay Agostino’, said the middle-aged yachties already on the bus, solid north-Europeans fleeing their …

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