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I am a complete Turkey

September 23, 2017by Alex 1 Comment

All of this to explain how I come to make a snap decision — a bad one — on the ferry between Rhodes and Marmaris.

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London, travel

One ciao is good, three is better

September 21, 2017by Alex Leave a comment

And don’t forget it’s three cheek kisses in Europe.

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London, travel

The CliffNotes version of Brussels and northern Spain and Lady Lovelylocks arrives!

September 20, 2017by Alex Leave a comment

Brussels and Spain. Cruelly summarised.

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London, travel

Am I more than you bargained for yet?

September 18, 2017by Alex Leave a comment

It’s beautifully, flamboyantly cliché. Ricky Martin has a house on one of the wide, green-canopied avenues. His music plays here more than is merited.

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Bath time with strangers!

September 18, 2017by Alex Leave a comment

A catch up entry from March 2017, lost between the flimsy pages of my Google Inbox and iPhone notes.

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Cronut-town

April 30, 2017by Alex Leave a comment

And now I’m on a plane to New York. I have 60 hours in New York City: it feels like a challenge. I’ve never liked this city. However, I’m fairly certain that that’s my fault, not its.

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London, Mid-air thoughts, travel

I’ve held dreams of Boston all my life

April 18, 2017by Alex Leave a comment

It’s all I can do not to fall asleep in my Sam Adams, raw clams and marshmallows.

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London, travel

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one

April 15, 2017by Alex Leave a comment

The London dark gnawed at me.

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London, Mid-air thoughts, travel

What do you dream of on the West Coast when my head is aching in GMT?

January 18, 2017by Alex Leave a comment

In which we road trip and there are too many characters: the Cub, Badger, Bunny, Bunky, Powerjam, brother, sister, as yet un-nicknamed cousin, Nakiska, Flipper and friends. And, unsurprisingly, too much drinking.

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London, travel

The boots with the furrrr

January 14, 2017by Alex Leave a comment

“It’s aprés!” I laugh.

“It’s what?”

“You’ve never…? Oh wow.”

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You seem to like these ones best

  • Let’s float, lets glide
  • Scorpion tornados.
  • There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out".
  • What intoxicating vanity
  • The Isle Is full Of Noises.

Thought for the week

"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time." - George Bernard Shaw

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