What with President Putin practicing escalatio on the Ukrainians, and then the Covid variants on top of that, it has been a nervous year, and people have begun to feel a bit like Shrödinger’s cat. – after Tom Lehrer, That …
Position: 38°39’07″N 70°54’12″W Hi Guys! Marlon here! Before you ask, yep enjoying urban life with my buddy Spencer. I’ve got him pretty well trained now. And I only get worried if he passes out and my peoples aren’t around to …
Position: 45°37’34″N 122°39’25″W Note: No albatrosses were harmed in the making of this blog. The ocean is salty and that salt gets everywhere on board. It gets into the rigging, the sails, the stores, and even the language. On a …
Don’t Stay Too Long Travelling around Europe on a British passport is no easier than travelling on a Samoan one these days. Overstaying your visa risks a fine, or a ban, or both. For Brits especially, EU immigration authorities have …
Position: 39°06’48″N 8°22’14″E No matter how many nautical miles you’ve got under your keel, or how many oceans you’ve crossed, you still have to find your sea legs when you reboard your ship. Every sailor gets queasy at some point. …
Position: 37°48’27″N 1°47’15″E Three days out of Sardinia, 75 miles from any shore, the weather finally turned nasty. It was dark, an hour from first light. For the previous three hours the weather had hung off in the distance. Miles …
Position: 51°31’0″N 0°02’32″W Back in the early 1980s, when I lived in London, each neighbourhood still had the distinctive feel of villages. There were greens surrounded by shops and a church. Local pubs were full of locals who had lived …
Position: 57°58’53″N 3°56’41″W The Sutherlands seem like a bloodthirsty lot. Or at least they were. At the turn of the 19th century they were also the wealthiest landowners in Britain. Eclipsing even Queen Victoria. One of the better-known Scottish clans, …
Position: 57°26’54″N 6°35’22″W The invention of the North Coast 500 (NC500) led to an inundation of tourists in the Scottish Highlands. Tourists in the sense of literally touring with a self-driven vehicle while pausing and snapping photos every 10 minutes …
