Thailand Tribulations: Mosquitoes, Monkeys and Motorbikes
Today’s post comes from Delia, a dear friend I met while judging an English competition in deepest, darkest Surrey, as you do. She has a wicked sense of humour and a fear of anything remotely rural (so...
View ArticleAyotzinapa: The Scandal of Mexico’s Disappeared Students
Header photo from Ayotzinapa Somos Todos, a very useful resource for finding out more and helping to spread the word about this crisis. On the 26th September 2014, 43 student teachers training at...
View ArticleMy Year in Travel
Photos: January – London, February – Berlin, March – Lisbon, April – Surrey, May – The Alentejo, June – Tangier, July – Paris, August – Snowdonia, September – Oxford, October – The Peak District,...
View ArticleA Snow Day in Sheffield
Sometimes, you don’t have to travel any further than outside your own front door to have a wonderful experience. This morning in Sheffield, I woke to snow falling and settling on the ground, pure,...
View ArticleHollywood’s Latin American Fiesta
FLying Down to Rio (1933) and Down Argentine Way (1940) From clockwise: Dolores del Rio and Gene Raymond in ‘Flying Down to Rio'; Don Ameche, and Betty Grable in ‘Down Argentine Way’. In the 1930s and...
View ArticleGabriel Garcia Marquez: Love and Death in Latin America
We’re approaching the first anniversary of the death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, one of the world’s great writers. With his generous moustache and twinkling eyes, he was also a beloved figure,...
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