Category: travel
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Corsica is a little different
We’ve visited several Mediterranean islands and enjoyed holidays on the coast in Italy and France and they’re generally characterised by complex histories with multiple invasions which have left their stamp. Not so Corsica. It might be over simplifying it but Corsica’s history spans the eighteenth century and not much more. Earlier it was run from…
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All the countries I’ve ever visited (part III)
I’m fortunate. I’ve enjoyed lots of travel and had good experiences as I’ve done so. For much of the time it’s been business travel but a lots also been vacations when I’ve shared it with my family. In this and subsequent posts I’ve tried to be consistent with what is a country. It’s an independent…
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5 memorable business trips (3)
This the third in a series of posts about memorable business trips. It relates to time some 10 years after the first two and although email was already a part of business life the concept of accessing your email when travelling hadn’t yet caught on. Give the dreadful position that Donald Trump has taken with…
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So that was 2025!
At least it ended on a positive note with a fine but very cold day, my blood pressure at 122/65 and my heart rate at 53. I weighed in this morning at 65.4 kg. Last year the numbers were 120/62 and 54 and 65.5 kg meaning no significant change over the year. I continue to…
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Historic Spain
We’ve just got back from a week in ‘historic Spain’ starting in Madrid and then spending time in el Escorial, Segovia, Avila, Salamanca and Toledo. It was a full on experience and I reckon it could usefully have been split into two: a long weekend in Madrid and then a week in the other cities.…
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5 memorable business trips (2)
This is the second in my series of posts about particularly memorable business trips. As with the first (click here) it dates back to pre-email times 2 On my own in the old Yugoslavia It was in the mid to late 80s and I was a Product Marketing Manager with Dow Chemical Europe. I was…
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(business) communications have changed …
I know that’s stating the bleeding obvious but sometimes it’s worth reminding ourselves of how much it’s changed and what it used to be like for the business traveller. I’ve had nigh on 50 years of such travel and here’s an outline of what I’ve experienced. For me it started in the early 70s when…
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All the countries I’ve ever visited (part II)
I’m fortunate. I’ve enjoyed lots of travel and had good experiences as I’ve done so. For much of the time it’s been business travel but a lots also been vacations when I’ve shared it with my family. In this and subsequent posts I’ve tried to be consistent with what is a country. It’s an independent…
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5 memorable business trips (1)
I’ve been fortunate in that I’ve had jobs that have allowed me to travel and taken me to places I’d normally not visit. I’ve always enjoyed the travel part of my job, if you don’t you really should find another job, and every trip gave me positive memories but just a handful were maybe longer…
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GoSW 2025: five highlights
Back in 2022 we took a tour of Gardens of North Wales expertly led by Tony Russell (click here for a relevant blog post). It seemed a good idea to repeat it sometime in the South and earlier this month we did. We used the same tour company which used the same guide so we…