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Stories from beyond the grave
I know – I’m too late for Halloween. But whatever the time of year – I do love graveyards. Old graveyards. Whether it’s a Neolithic burial mound, a stone cross on the…
Category: My travels
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We interrupt this blog for a special announcement.
I know I promised you a graveyard blog this week… but I’ve got something better for you. Drum roll please. I have a new book – working title The Sun At…
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Steamed up over Great Smoky
There’s bears in them there hills. Seriously. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park – which straddles the Tennessee / North Carolina border – claims to have bears. About 1700 of them. That…
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Stories within stories … within stories.
Museums are not about rare and fabulous objects safely locked behind protective glass. At least the good ones aren’t. Museums should be about people and the lives they lived. Museums should…
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Log Cabins and Railway Carriages
It is amazing where music will lead you. In this case – to a shotgun shack in the Appalachian Mountains and an art deco railway carriage in Chattanooga. Recently we went…
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Knitting kNirvana
Or… how I went to Ally Pally and nearly lost my mind. Regular readers will know that some time ago I took up knitting. I’m not that good at it…
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5,000 years of history in an afternoon
Continuing my present habit of visiting troubled parts of the world, last week I found myself in Jerusalem. The city’s history stretches into the distant past – but it seems always…
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The armed, the scared and the very drunk.
Regular readers of this blog will know that I travel a lot in my day job – and sometimes it takes me to places I might not otherwise visit. These places…