If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Better than Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. That’s what the cover says. Anyone who has read the former, then, will have high hopes for this book which are, unfortunately, largely unrealised.
Even the blurb on the back in misleading, claiming that this [...]

The penultimate picture in this stream from our trip to Austria takes us up into the mountain behind the city. It’s the one that sits closest to the city and furthest from the ski jump, so is neglected by the ski fraternity.
And the Olympic sightseers.
But it’s the taller of the two and, on a clear [...]

Continuing the Austrian photo stream, this amply demonstrates the wonderful selection of ‘vegetarian’ food available in some of Vienna’s most popular tourist spots.

Well… we all guessed it was going to be a video iPod they were launching tonight. It wasn’t exactly a badly kept secret, but it was such a widespread rumour and all the evidence pointed to us having reached a ‘now or never’ point in time so it seemed almost inevitable.
And so Chris P and [...]

Picture three in the stream from last month’s trip is a craggy outcrop that towered above us on the banks of the river that runs behind the Olympic ski jump in Innsbruck.
Can you see a face, with big long nose capped by shaggy eyebrows looking back at you?

Dinner with Kathryn and Ems, who had spent all day testing vegetable peelers and can openers for her mag. Now far be it from me to commit myself to spending eight hours beside a stack of raw veg with my hands in a bowl of cold water, but Ems does have the most varied job [...]

The second picture of the small stream I’m publishing from the trip we took last month is this one of Innsbruck, around lunchtime, seen from the top of Patscherkofel (2246m). We rode up most of the way on the cable car and climbed the last 300m for this fantastic view, then spent the whole afternoon [...]

I’ve finally started to look through the pictures from our most recent trip, so I’ll drip-feed a few on to the site. We’ll start with some signs from Austria. The first from Vienna…

…wouldn’t be so bad had we not come across this mess in Innsbruck…

I should have been writing, but the apples were asking to be used.

Not so much Gay Paree as Grey Paree, unfortunately. I woke up this morning to a dirty white sky, and as I bounced through the heavy rush hour traffic in a dented taxi the Grande Arche slowly - painfully slowly - faded into view. This was the fourth taxi I’d tried, the other three refusing [...]