22 January 2022 There is still some confusion about my flight home and I've been onto Qantas by phone for hours; it's been a futile...

21 January 2022 My time in London is coming to an end and despite getting a short reprieve of one day due to a cancelled flight, I must...

20 January 2022 The Number 63 bus is almost my best friend! I'm sure I haven't had to wait for any longer for five minutes for it to...

19 January 2022 What a wonderful trip this has been! It has been made sweeter because I've finally been able to shake off the shackles of...

16 January 2022 Today is yet another beautiful, clear Irish Winter's day and I have four hours to drive from Kilkee to Newgrange, the...

13 January 2022 Ireland is a magical, mystical place. It has a long, diverse, and troubled history, yet the people here are like no other...

11 January 2022 On a whim, I decide to travel to Ireland since most restrictions have been lifted. Fares on Ryanair are cheap. It’s the...

8 January 2022 The magical Winter-wonderland landscape has disappeared and is replaced with lush green partitioned pastures on this...

7 January 2022 Within an hour of leaving sunny Whitby, big splodges of soft ice splatter the windscreen. Minutes later the soft sleet...

Is it cheating to drive to the Whitby Abbey carpark? Not the way we have planned our day. We DID drive up to the Abbey carpark. But the...

Have you ever travelled to a place with great expectations and then felt a sense of disappointment when you arrived? This is how I feel...

3 January 2022 Great excitement today as we board a train for York. Despite only being able to secure 'backward' seats, somehow it...

30 December 2021 The train speeds through the Kent countryside; strange round-shaped buildings litter the countryside and pique my...

31 December, 2021 Tonight, New Year’s Eve, we climb Dawson’s Hill not far from Natasha’s home. She assures me that from this vantage...

29 December 2021 I don't mind admitting that we had a fairly lazy day today. I ventured out alone; a set of directions saved to my phone...

27 December 2021 Managing to make a perfect connection between bus and train, we arrive at the historic London Bridge station in record...

26 December 2021 Just a short bus ride away is Crystal Palace Park, a huge park that is famous for more than being the home of the...

25 December 2021 We procrastinate. Do we prepare lunch or an early dinner? It's Christmas Day but somehow I'm not fazed about whether we...

24 December 2021 The negative result of my PCR test arrived last night, which means that my forty-eight hours of isolation have...

There isn't much one can say about a flight that lasts more than seventeen hours. COVID has changed the face of world travel and I am...