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What Country Am I In, Again?
Posted on May 2, 2012 | 38 CommentsStill damp from the hot springs we have been swimming in, we are barrelling through the back streets of Siwa, an oasis town in Egypt’s Western Desert, mudbrick houses looming...
April Fool’s Day in Cairo
Posted on April 1, 2012 | 10 CommentsOne of the things my son and I try to do, as we travel the world, is to celebrate occasions we would celebrate in the UK, whether our host culture...
Now, About Those White Shirts, Child of Mine
Posted on March 7, 2012 | 13 CommentsLike many 11-year-old boys*, even those who aren’t travelling the world, washing does not figure highly on my spawn’s list of things to do. He’s pretty good about the twice...
Jamie’s Mum
Posted on March 3, 2012 | 18 CommentsJamie’s mum sits next to us on our flight from the UK to Egypt. She’s 68, looks mid-50s, did facials for Olivier and Richard Harris, still rides a motorbike and...
In Which I Lose My Child. Again.
Posted on February 11, 2012 | 36 Comments“Yeah,” I say to Z. “It’s too cold to walk a mile in this. Let’s catch the Metro…” After our chilly arrival, we are beginning to, umm, warm to Sofia...
Travel Planning 2012 — Or, Getting My Sh*t Together, Sort Of
Posted on January 17, 2012 | 21 CommentsI had high hopes for our sojourn in Blighty. By approximately, umm, now, Z and I would have completed a whirlwind tour of the UK, caught up with scores of...
Halloween in China
Posted on November 3, 2011 | 10 CommentsI wasn’t optimistic about celebrating Halloween in China. Not least because my Halloween track record has been pretty damn abysmal over most of my son’s childhood. Halloween has loomed pretty...
So… What Do I Do?!
Posted on October 18, 2011 | 29 CommentsSo here we are in Lijiang, China, probably the most beautiful city I’ve ever visited, staying gratis in a hotel far above our usual standards, a nice chap has reminded...
Work Is Work, Wherever You Are…
Posted on September 17, 2011 | 20 CommentsI see a lot of blog posts selling the dream. The dream of location independence. Of life as a digital nomad. The dream of the laptop propped in your virtual...
Family Values
Posted on September 14, 2011 | 7 CommentsAs a trio, H, Z and I cause no little confusion to the good and tolerant folk of Laos, where we’re exploring en route to China. “Two loom?” folk at...
The Eagle Has Flown
Posted on August 15, 2011 | 26 CommentsBustling around the room in his new black T-shirt and jeans, gathering clothes, piling belongings on his bed, Z looks — well, I can only say grown-up. His shoulders have...
What Does A Travelling Single Mum Look Like?
Posted on July 8, 2011 | 28 CommentsTravelling as a single parent, there generally aren’t that many photos of you. The pic above is one of few with me and Z together, and there’s hardly any of...
Seven Travel Lessons Learnt From Bitter Experience
Posted on June 20, 2011 | 22 Comments1: There is a Time and a Place for Hallucinogens That time and place is not a Moroccan beach patrolled by men in hooded cloaks with large rifles. Nor is...
The S Word
Posted on February 14, 2011 | 18 CommentsWhen the lovely Colin and Tracy asked me over appropriately, err, lubricating quantities of beer, to put together a piece on sex on the road, for Christine, I was a...
Help! I’m Location Independent
Posted on February 11, 2011 | 26 Comments“Location independent” is a phrase I, frankly, loathe. Though, with its implication that anyone who’s not travelling has somehow failed to think about what they want in life, “lifestyle design”...
The Birds and the Bees
Posted on March 8, 2010 | No CommentsIn the aftermath of our not wildly successful dragon boat cruise, Z and I are ambling along the south bank of Hue’s Perfume River, trying to put our collective fingers...
On Laundry
Posted on March 6, 2010 | No CommentsSo this rather hot Kiwi chap in his 30s hit on me in the hotel last night. Obviously, I completely failed to register it until I dropped “my son” into...
