Paris Salon de la Moto – Quick report from a visit to France’s largest motorcycle show. All the major brands on display with every model accessible to the public to touch and sit upon – a very large candy shop for this kid. Bike I’d most like to own – Ducati Superleggera. Arun: I know …
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London: Still the art, entertainment, culture, and over stimulation capital of the world. A quick visit with no pre-planning and we managed to see …. the National Theatre’s adaptation of Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (brilliant staging and beautiful performances and a puppy dog on stage to top …
Field of Remembrance at Westminster Cathedral – Wide angle, enraging; close up it is heartbreaking. Each November since the 1920s, the Royal British Legion has set out Fields of Remembrance to allow individuals to honour and remember the fallen who served in uniform. There are sections set aside for specific regiments and particular conflicts and …
Burning Man defies description – Just search for “Burning Man 2013” to see how much trouble the mainstream media has explaining Burning Man to an audience with a 30 second attention span. Impossible. We just spent a week in Black Rock City with 68,000 of our closest friends and here are a few glib generalisations …
Cote du Nord: the least accessible and most extraordinary gastronomic experience in Great Britain …. Dr. Chris Duckham is a GP with a fascination for food. Three nights a week in summer he indulges his obsession by cooking for up to eight people in the dining room of his home; a former school house in …
From Bettyhill to Applecross … stunning from start to finish. The first panorama is from my window at the Bettyhill Hotel looking over Torrisdale Bay to Neave Island with a single white cottage on the headland. Following the coast along the top of Scotland took us past so many stunning vistas that it was impossible …
Barter Books and “Keep Calm and Carry On" …. This image has now become totally banal but here is where it came to light. During World War II the British government produced three posters to be used to improve morale in the face of desperate times in the UK. Two of the posters were printed …
The Great Gathering …. On July 3rd 1938, Mallard established the world speed record for a steam locomotive near Grantham on the East Coast Main Line. The record will now stand forever. This month the event was celebrated at the National Railway Museum at York with the gathering of the six remaining locomotives of this …
Thanks to Hana and Patrick for a great trip ….. Hana Ptackova was the host for our trip around Morocco and she is the owner of Moto Adventours based in Spain but expert in Morocco. Patrick Trahan was our guide and coach and is a three time competitor in the Paris-Dakar rally and member of …
Fantasia or the Gunpowder Play ….. riding out of Ouarzazate along the Dades Valley late on a Friday afternoon, we ran into the town of El-Kelaa M’Gouna in the middle of an enormous market day and the Fantasia horse show. People from outside Morocco call these events Fantasia but the locals call them Lab el …
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