Travel

In my new role as unofficial National Rust traffic reporter, yesterday I had occasion to set off at 5.50am on a quest to visit a publisher in a little village not far from the city of Leicester, an expedition that necessarily involved travelling up the M1 motorway, of which I had been much warned [...]

Yesterday our main engagement was lunch with my 92-year old godfather and family at their home in a suburb of Perth. I hadn’t visited it in forty-four years but the extraordinary thing is – even though I barely remembered it – you could tell, just by being there, that it [...]

After three nights in Melbourne, yesterday we flew on to Perth in Western Australia, which I last visited immediately after leaving school forty-four years ago. To give some idea of the scale of these things, WA is three hours behind Melbourne in terms of time zones and could not be described as [...]

Our whistle-stop tour of the Southern Hemisphere continues and my father and I have now developed a working pattern. At night we retire to our rooms at about 9.00pm, having agreed to meet in the foyer beside the breakfast area at 7.30am the next morning. The next morning at 6.50am he calls me to [...]

After another Singapore Airlines flight, this of six or seven hours’ duration – I cannot remember which because, with the three (or is it four?) hours difference between Singapore and Victoria, it’s very easy to get in a muddle – we arrived at Melbourne and made out way to [...]

I guess it was inevitable. After two full days in Singapore – the first of which we spent being driven around on personal guided tours and then having a slap-up meal at a famous private club … and the second of which we spent visiting the Bay South version of the epic Gardens by the Bay [...]

I am a chastened gentleman. There is nothing quite like a well-appointed bathroom facility in a double room hotel suite in a foreign land to bring a chap crashing back to earth. Before making my way to my computer to compose this post report this morning I had occasion to visit said facility in [...]