The Old Ways
I finished reading 'The Old Ways', Robert Macfarlane's joyous account of journeys on foot, on a plane to South Africa in January. But such is the…
Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers
“Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers, and they’ve been known to pick a song or two. Lord they get me off so much, they pick me…
Why the Lea Valley makes London liveable
The Lea Valley has been my escape to greenery since moving to London nearly twenty years ago. Back then, living on the Kingsmead estate in Homerton,…
Souk Secrets
Marrakech is one of those places that has probably always been a market town. Certainly I learned enough on this trip to know that it has…
Cape Town – where the oceans meet
Just about every South African I know has told me Cape Town is the place to go, so I had been looking forward to last week’s…
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