Circling back

Two stories. In 1982 a thin, brown, scantily dressed Australian girl stands by the roadside in Delphi, her thumb out…

Forget charming and exotic…who’s winning?

Why is it always sunny in travel photos? Why – I call this the Instagram Effect – is it necessary…

Suppose you went to Belsun, two thousand five hundred years after World War 2. What would you expect? Would the…

Go south. Clearly the Brits have long recognised this, despite their traditional cries of ‘But yer get betta fish n…

And more judgemental ignorant statements that no decent open-minded person should tolerate! So Seville. Gorgeous place. Orange blossom all over…

So here’s a coincidence… I’ve been writing a book about a woman who decides to pursue her dead husband into…

Would you ask your grandmother if she’d like a sex toy? Me neither (but then, both of mine were dead…

actually enjoying them comes down, I’ve found, to weather. This is amazing – I tell myself, gritting my teeth, as…

And yet, without them… I spent this morning in the Mesquite, the magnificent mosque built by Abdul ar Rahman 1…

You either like them or you don’t. Madrid is…big-boned. The Plaza de Mayor, an imposing red brick square with a…