Chocolate and Cuckoos

This is will be my last post here as I have now moved to the typepad site and have created a blog today called dragondays. I can't get ...

Five months between blogs is too long ... I started this blog with good intentions and things are going from bad to worse! Since my blog on...

Goodness - not a squeak from me since our trip to New York! A quick run-down on the last five months ... Christmas first of all with 14 of ...

Back from what must be the most fun city in the world, and a quick scribble before I'm off again to Brussels this weekend for a week, si...

Well, not yet! But the decision has been taken - and this is will be my last winter high up in the Swiss Alps. Last week on yet another fl...

In three days' time, we will celebrate two years of living in the Swiss Alps. Two years that have been fun which has seen the arrival o...

I don't seem to have had much time for my blog recently, but have managed to write a piece for Colin Randall over on his blog about the ...

The last day of the summer holidays - tomorrow the alarm will ring at 5.30am and the school year will start once again for my son. As I typ...

My God! A month and a half since I have written anything here. I have a backlog of blogs to write but little time at the moment ... hopefu...

Sun going down over Wimbledon Stadium Well, the 'Journey' didn't take us to the Western Isles of Scotland this time, but plunged...

My poor old blog has been abandoned recently due to the early euphoria of the new Telegraph blog. I think I will no longer blog there, but ...

The problem of being in a city for a long weekend or a short week, depending on how you look at it, is that you cannot see and do everything...

I enjoy going round an unknown city on an open-top bus. It helps me get my bearings (sadly lacking), gives you an idea of the size of a cit...

Well, how I actually managed to get to Barcelona defeats me! The day I leave God decides that the skies will open, sleet will fall and the ...

Apologies for not having posted anything for ages - you must be getting heartily sick of the same old photos of the demolished chalet! I wa...