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Posts from the ‘Travel’ Category

Permission to escape on March 6, 2021

Brexit Diaries: the banana worm has turned on January 13, 2021

Notre-Dame: how a treasure survived against the odds, and why the tragedy made me love France even more on November 27, 2020

What did you do in the Lockdown, Granddad? Pilnuj swoich spraw, dziecko. on November 20, 2020

Cornwall: the dark side of a British tourist haven on November 9, 2020

Corona Diaries Redux – Lockdown 2 arrives on November 5, 2020

Quite Alone: stories of hope from the Middle East on October 5, 2020

Another landmark in a cancelled year on September 1, 2020

Beirut on August 6, 2020

Hagia Sophia becomes a mosque again. No reason for Christians to grieve, but a missed opportunity on July 14, 2020

Lockdown Reading: Nathaniel’s Nutmeg on June 21, 2020

America and the myths of Britishness – putting the boot on the other foot on June 20, 2020

Corona Diaries: escape strategies on June 15, 2020

Corona Diaries: Oh to be in England, especially when you’re off games on June 14, 2020

Racism is pandemic, not an epidemic on June 5, 2020

Corona Diaries: rejoice! Boris takes control on June 3, 2020

Corona Diaries: The Joys of Lockdown – number 37, dressing your library for success on May 29, 2020

Corona Diaries: three watchwords that will power the recovery on May 17, 2020

Corona Diaries: project number 47 – Italian lessons on May 12, 2020

Corona Diaries: as if a deadly virus isn’t enough… on May 10, 2020

Corona Diaries: twenty-eight thousand on May 3, 2020

Corona Diaries: ah g’won, take another one, just to be sure! on April 20, 2020

Corona Diaries – bagpipes, drone videos and the rigours of le lockdown on March 27, 2020

Corona Diaries – viral humour, states of denial and other stuff on March 26, 2020

Corona Diaries – Keep calm and carry on, as the ancients would say on March 13, 2020

Corona Diaries – sound and fury, signifying what the hell? on March 12, 2020

Corona Diaries – The Walking Immuno-Compromised on March 7, 2020

The hostile environment? on February 27, 2020

Last Postcard from Phuket – Corona schmorona on February 25, 2020

Postcard from Phuket – the quiet joy of people watching on February 24, 2020