If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Saturday saw us head to France. I’ve not been since last September, so my language was a little bit mangled, but as I only had to use it in the restaurant and we all got what we wanted to [...]

So we lost Eurovision. We deserved to. Flying the Flag was a terrible song. It was a terrible performance. It was stuck in the 80s, and proved just how pinned to the past the UK is. We got 19 points, which is 13 more than we deserved. And the only reason we deserved just 13 [...]

I used to like The British Museum. For the building as much as anything else. Then, last summer, I went to Greece and visited the largely incomplete Acropolis. I looked up at the gaps on the front of the Parthenon, and at the replacement women on the Erechtheion and was sorely disappointed that while I’d [...]

Clearing out the pictures on my phone this morning, three quick snaps I took on my travels cropped up. First, unintentional Bulgarian comedy, or using sex to sell a banana split? I’m not so sure:

When my work here at MacUser is done, perhaps I’ll take on a role at gossip mag Fanny magazine.

And my first [...]

Well, Transylvania to be precise, but Bucharest for the first few days of the week and, by tomorrow, a little town on the Hungarian border. For the moment, though, I’m enjoying the high life in the Romanian Alps, where the clouds swoop in across the town in the morning and by afternoon they are just [...]

Hello. Have I really been gone so long? The last entry on this thing was a week and six days ago, which was the last time I logged on to the net and, you know what, I haven’t missed it at all.
So, what’s happened in the interim? Well, last week started in Paris for Apple [...]

I’m planning on travelling to Bulgaria next month, so I’ve been checking out the Foreign Office advice for travellers. Car thefts are apparently quite common, and could be more costly than you expect if you have driven into the country in your own, non-Bulgarian car:
If your vehicle is stolen while you are in Bulgaria, you [...]

The shrine itself is quite peaceful, but the town itself has cashed in on the pilgrimage trail in the most dreadful, blatant manner.

Porto’s Ribeira district is dirty, broken and falling to bits. But that gives it its charm, and is probably why it’s now a Unesco World Heritage Site.

It’s built on the edge of a gorge. Plenty of hills to climb.