On Being Thrifty

Position: PENURIOUS When it comes to saving money, I’m all for it. As a nearly Old Age Pensioner I am thoroughly looking forward to my birthday when a surfeit of discounts will fall my way. Among the benefits I will …

IRL

Position: 52°00’41.5″N 4°42’38.8″E For the past eight years or so, I’ve been meeting weekly with three other chaps to solve all of the world’s problems. Our online chats last about an hour and long predated Covid copycat meetups. We have …

Travel Tips

Kicking off the new year in practical style, we’ve been asked to share our top travel tips. Never ones to back down, we put our heads together and here’s what we came up with. Before we dive in, a couple …

Notes on Travel

How do we decide where to go when we’re out exploring? This perfectly practical question was posed to us after a two-hour recounting of our adventures with Carol’s dad’s neighbours. They listened attentively as we waded through four years of …