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 …
Nerves
I’ve been working as a Tour Manager for just over 12 years, led over 100 Tours (think of it as being 3,000 people) and I like to think that by now I’ve more or less got the hang of it. I’ve led Tours world-wide and dealt with a raft of incidents of varying severity. I’ve …
Festive Lemsip Coma
I got back from my last Tour of 2025 on 09th December and after a couple of days to recover from jet-lag, got sick. It’s what tends to happen when you’ve been working hard for an extended period of time, and then finally take a break. It’s as if your body has been storing stuff …


