Discovering life in Hel in the happy capital of the world

The endless daylight might not be good for the sleep pattern but it feels more like heaven than hel to me in the happiest country on earth.

Fact and fiction converge at La Guardia Airport

The man possesses a soft, half-formed sadness. This causes a few nearby empathic passengers to pity him in a way that’s not becoming of anyone.

Gourd almighty! It’s World Cucumber Day!

I’m even prepared to be the travel retail face of the campaign. Then again, I suppose they’re far more likely to cast Benedict Cucumberpatch.

And next… from Next 88

Smart man. Or should that be smart cookie?

The search for Ireland’s most honest travelling diners

‘Customers refund restaurant’ deserves to be right up there with journalism’s most famous aphorism, ‘man bites dog’, for sheer unlikeliness.

Lost in (duty free) space, the sequel

With my advanced years, notoriously fickle directional capabilities AND having to focus on shooting a video, what possible chance did I have of getting out of this terrible ‘force through’ duty free?

Twaddle deep and twaddle dumb in Auckland

My native land is anything but a back water. But that doesn’t spare it from sometimes being a swamp of twaddle deep and twaddle dumb.

Food for thought (but maybe not for eating) in New York

I’m not so sure I would be tempted by any of those sandwiches, even if I’d been queuing since 1892.

Drawing breath before a moment of distilling history

If Friendship and Whisky gang thegither, Go together I’m aye the aqua vitae you imbie wi one another. Maybe a nip, a sip, O Macallan Gold to handsel and handfast a partnership? A deal sealed With just your word, a handshake, a dram? What a firm and lasting promise I am! What a lovely sentiment

Writing like an angel in Haikou and heading for the stars in Singapore

From Hong Kong to South Canterbury – A Global Gift of Support

Mama don’t take my Toblerone (Dark) away