Anyone who knows me knows I’m fussy as all hell about my food – or at least I used to be. When I was a child, I used to be packed off to other children’s parties with a list from my mother. It stretched to about 15 items and it was all the food I [...]

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I noticed I was missing a few links on the Useful Links for Travellers page, so I’ve updated it. I’ve also tidied it up a little. There are a fair few more links to pop on there, actually, so expect it to grow a bit in the next few days!

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It’s always nice to spot the differences and similarities between countries. Except, perhaps, when it’s something as annoying as crap drivers. The kind of person who shouldn’t be let loose in a 750cc bubble car let alone a house for three on wheels. The mountain tracks around here are heaving with these idiots at the [...]

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This sounds like a silly thing to get a lot of pleasure out of, but walking into a shop and leaving a few minutes later with all the things you wanted is quite an achievement. Well, it is when you have to ask for them all individually and in a language other than your own. [...]

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Well, as usual things mainly focus around work so day-to-day goings-on aren’t as interesting as they were when I was country-hopping or walking across Europe for charity. Talking of the charity walk, I had a visitor over the weekend – Giuliana who put me up for a night when I was in Turin and had [...]

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