The £8.75 Apology for a hotel room with Turds and Toilet paper

Not the most pleasant headline, but this is a true travel story about an experience at a leading British hotel chain during a city break in Liverpool. I travel a bit more now that I am retired, and love nothing more than a short city break, mostly in the UK, but occasionally further afield. I... Continue Reading →

A walk round the neighborhood

It has been more than a year, (B.C. in fact, or before covid) since I was last at the London flat.   It had become a   little dusty, (the flat, not London) but it was comforting to see  the  familiar paintings that adorn the place and furnish the rooms. I took a walk round the neighbourhood,... Continue Reading →

Pandemic Travel

To London.  First time for some eighteen months.    A little surreal.    Dublin airport virtually deserted with odd strangers wondering about in masks.   The queue for security scanning, usually a long tedious stretch, were moving fast, social distancing in place.  Just one of the great bank of scanners was in operation.    To be honest it was... Continue Reading →

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