It was 2019 when I last went to Les Contamines. One year later it was one of the first places that the Covid outbreak arrived in Europe. I wasn’t sure if I would get an opportunity to go back. I wasn’t sure if I was still capable of skiing having […]
Travel
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Bee and I spent escaped the winter and spent six weeks in Agadir. The plan was to enjoy heat and light, which are in short supply in England at this time of year. Agadir probably doesn’t warrant a six-week stay, unless you were using it as a base to do […]
Bee and I decided that we needed a positive start to 2024 after such an awful end to 2023. We decided to spend January in Marrakech. We booked a riad in the Medina and stayed for just under three weeks. It gave us a chance to explore the souk and […]
Bee and I had a chance to get away because of all the bank holidays as a result of the coronation. We haven’t travelled abroad together since the pandemic, and it was a chance to celebrate (almost) ten years of married life together. We actually married in September 2013, but […]
I went via Dublin when travelling to see my family in Cork. I have lots of fond memories of this city and it would take a whole novel to recall all of them. It is simpler to say that I have always loved this city, in varying degrees, and I […]
I went back to Berlinale for the first time since the pandemic. It was the first time that I travelled Berlin by train since I inter-railed as a student in 2000. I took the coach from Bournemouth to Victoria, then tube to St Pancras, then Eurostar to Brussels, then ICE […]
I travelled via Eurostar to Breda in the Netherlands. I was working with university students on sustainability in the media industries, and how it their projects could be more environmentally sustainable in production and editorial. It was a great experience, and thanks must go to Fritz Kohle and Arleen Cuevas […]