If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I think I need a holiday. The last two weeks have worn me out. Four flights, a thousand miles of driving, trains, buses, and so much walking I’ve given up even trying to work out how far my legs […]

The two things I will remember most about Lithuania, besides the lovely people and the fantastic buildings in Vilnius, are the heat (40 degrees C yesterday) and how cheap everything is. A two course meal, including drinks, will set you back less than

Well, that has to be the quickest unpacking, washing, drying and repacking of clothes in the history of my washing machine. Practically everything I took to Iceland is now clean and back in my travel back ready for Lithuania.
Whether we get there or not is another matter. The M25 is closed at Heathrow because a […]

I have seen so much it feels like I have packed a whole month into just six days. Iceland is an extraordinary place, where the pubs start getting busy at 2am, the sun sets at half midnight and rises half an hour later, and the smells stick in your mind just as much as the […]

What a forward-thinking country Iceland is, giving you free Internet access in coffee shops, even if the keys are in strange places. What you are supposed to do with a button that has a ? on it, I don’t know. I also have yet to find the ‘at’ symbol. Perhaps email hasn’t taken off in […]

It’s very hot today. Too hot to be doing jobs, but there were bags to pack, carpets to hoover and cups and plates to wash.
I’ve squeezed all of my clothes into my gym bag, on the logic that if I lived out of it for two weeks on the TGVs I can manage a week […]

Today was a good day to leave the office. Tomorrow is the start of a three day tube strike that would make it easy to get into work, but hell to get home.
Leaving the office for a fortnight has got me weeks ahead with my work. It will get me away from a keyboard for […]

The last few days before you go on holiday are always filled with the little jobs you didn’t remember having to do, like invoicing and writing 50-word snippets to squeeze into the corners of pages. I arrived in the office this morning convinced I had a fairly empty day ahead, but by lunchtime I already […]

Very disciplined. Awake nice and early for breakfast in bed and a bit of Iceland travel-guide reading, then up to cut my hair, shower, and get down to the gym for this week’s Complete Physique class. It’s only my second week in the class, so it’s still difficult, but I think I did better this […]

It’s the end of the school term, so Sal had organised her class to put on Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for the parents last night. Of course, nobody ever said it just had to be the kids’ parents, so she invited Mum, Andrew, Dan, his mum and me to come along and block […]