This is a story about using French cheese as a guide to wandering around Normandy. The adventure visits Dieppe, where a mammoth market is discovered, Neufchatel-en-Bray and its lazy town square, Forges-les-Eaux, and the medieval streets and fine restaurants of Rouen – with cheese as the common thread!
Travel account of a visit to the island ot Tinos, in the Greek Cyclades, discussing meetings with remarkable pelicans, staying in hotels, outdoor dining, Pelagia and her miracle, and following the stony mule roads into the island's rural interior to visit the remains of a Venetian castle at Exombourgo.
Here is some travel writing and photography that I particularly enjoy; some new, some that hasn't been publicly aired recently. Lots more to come yet. Hope you enjoy them!
Account of a journey by songthaew, hitched motorcycles and nickel plated trucks around northeast Thailand, encountering college teachers on Mekong whiskey, clifftop monks, obscure archaeology, a giant Buddha in Erawan Cave and a woman with wooden black teeth!
Text and photographs about the filming of a key scene in The Wolfman (release: 2009) covering two streets of London below Lincoln's Inn. This is fascinating, big budget movie-making that recreates Victorian London and involves dozens of actors, over 100 crew, teams of horses and carriages, acres of artificial cobblestone and a mammoth rain machine suspended from the sky.