Category Archives: Travel
What to wear
The question of the week Autumn in our little corner of France has decided to perform a yo-yo ballet, and my wardrobe is the unwilling understudy. Last week, in a fit of optimism, I packed away all my shorts and … Continue reading
I Had a Plan. Then My Kidney Got Involved
And still no decision, also my kidney hates me It has now been just about two months since I wrote A Tale of Two Cities (And My Wobbly Knees), a post in which I confidently identified a problem — two … Continue reading
Summer files a grievance
and I file a counter suit… Let the record show: summer is five days late to its own funeral. I woke up this morning to a positively cheeky 18°C — a good ten degrees shy of the sauna we’ve been … Continue reading
A Tale of Two Cities (And My Wobbly Knees)
There’s a particular kind of trouble that starts with a good weekend. You come home, you unpack your bag, and instead of feeling satisfied, you feel unsatisfied — in the best possible way. That’s exactly the hole I’ve dug myself … Continue reading
London weekend
🇬🇧 Day 1 The Great Stansted Rendez-vous: A Father-Son Weekend Every family has its own private cartography — the places that mean more than the map admits. For us, that place is London. My wife hails from south of the … Continue reading
Himmelfahrt
🇬🇧 When Heaven meets beer carts and fatherly pride The Divine Ascent and the Earthly Descent Today is Himmelfahrt—a day so uniquely German that it manages to blend the sacred and the saucy into one glorious, beer-fueled, handcart-hauling celebration. If … Continue reading
Escapade en Bretagne I
The noble art of going nowhere fast There is something quietly absurd about traveling nine hours by train to cover a distance a crow would manage in two. But crows don’t have first-class seats, and they certainly don’t have a … Continue reading
Spanish retreat – Day 6
🇬🇧 Palms, processions & the perilous shortage of gin Today we decided to broaden our horizons (and by “broaden,” I mean drive a whole 30km without snacks). Destination: Elche, a proper city near the airport, which feels like it should … Continue reading
The great winter escape
🇬🇧 (That we escaped from too soon) ☃️ You know that feeling when you check out of a hotel at 10am and then watch from the taxi as they start handing out free champagne in the lobby at 10:15? That’s … Continue reading
