It was reading Bruce Chatwin’s book as a teenager that first fired my imagination about this ‘end-of-the-world’ land, boarded by three great oceans – the Atlantic to the east, the roaring Southern Ocean and Cape Horn to the south and the vast wildness of the Pacific to the west. We’ve come to the mystical and…

Well, here we are once again, base camp Santiago de Chile. That makes it five visits between December 2017 and January 2019. We arrived from gloomy London (sorry Guy) on BA’s longest haul flight at 14 hours non-stop. This particular flight was a MUCH better experience than flying over to London in November, when we…

On yet another gloomy winter day in London, where better to seek enlightenment than the British Museum, arguably the greatest museum on the planet… I know, I know, there’s the Louvre or the Met perhaps, or even the Hermitage or Smithsonian, but seriously, the British Museum has to have the most comprehensive world collection anywhere!…

We’ve been away for 6 months now and I have to say I’m feeling a tad homesick, if only for the sunshine, the cooling sea breezes and the intense sense of light (not to mention our many dear friends and family), for God knows, there’s little of that here in the depths of an English…

Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas and a safe and prosperous 2019. We’ve had a whirlwind few weeks whilst in London – hectic to say the least! I’m looking forward to spending some quiet time with Mum down in Bournemouth whilst Ants heads up to North Wales to be with Dad. It’s incredibly mild…

The canal ways of North London are relatively little-known to the hordes of tourists that throng to London year-round. Perhaps this might be different in the summer months, but on a cold winter’s day like yesterday there wasn’t a soul around, aside from some coots, the odd jogger, an elegant swan or two and some…

‘Put your hands on the ice, listen to it, smell it, look at it – and witness the ecological changes our world is undergoing.’ – Olafur Eliasson Artist Eliasson and geologist Mink Rosing fished twenty-four iceberg fragments out of the Nuup Kangerlua fjord in Greenland, with each block weighing between 1.5 and 5 tonnes! The…

Gay go up and gay go down (that’s actually part of the rhyme, really it is) To Ring the Bells of London Town “Oranges and Lemons” say the Bells of St. Clements “Bullseyes and Targets” say the Bells of St. Margaret’s “Brickbats and Tiles” say the Bells of St. Giles “Halfpence and Farthings” say the Bells of St. Martin’s…

Really great to see the latest architectural wonder in London – the recently opened Coal Drops Yard in King’s Cross. Designed by UK’s ‘star of the moment’ architect Thomas Heatherwick, the conversion of two 19th coal warehouses (whose roofs now take flight and reach out to touch each other) is superbly done and forms the centre…

Arrived back in London for the dressing of the Christmas tree – and what a fine tree it is too! Guy and Rachel have a great collection of baubles and decorations gathered from all over the world, so once Guy had struggled with the tree on the bus and got it home in one piece,…