No travel plans

This is a crisis! Anyone suffering from travel addiction must have several things at least semi-lined up – at least booked but not paid for. Last year this time I was in New York, heading up to Bangor in a few days. I had a cruise to the South Pacific booked along with my tickets

Dog breeds

Not that I care about this, but it occurs to me that when I was a kid there were half a dozen breeds of dog. You had your collies, German shepherds, poodles, chihuahuas (for the weird), Labrador and beagles. Every so often you’d find something more exotic like an Irish setter or Scottie dog, the

Travellin’ light

I do wish I could have travelled when I was young. I feel envious of the young things who can travel with just a backpack and cope with a night in the train station and sleep in hostels with a dozen strangers in the room. I could have done it once, but these days I