India is a nation of contrasts and colours. Something that smells heavenly a yard away from something that doesn’t; wealth and poverty; beauty and ugliness; magnificence and crumbling concrete; old and new. I wanted to write about India as an experience, rather than as a sequence of remarkable sights. This is more difficult to say …
The Best Job In The World?
I may, possibly, have the best job in the world… I get to travel, visit and enjoy wonderful places and people, experience different cultures and best of all… I get to travel by rail whenever possible. Imagine the worst day at work you can think of, and then imagine that you have to work through …
Aotearoa, The Long White Way: New Zealand by Rail
There’s a silly game that I play in my head sometimes. I imagine that I wake up one morning and discover that overnight, Britain has become North Korea (don’t laugh). I have to up sticks and live somewhere else. But where? Where else could I live happily and well? The list is depressingly short, but …
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