To Read on the Road: Myanmar
I always try to find a good selection of books to take with me when I travel and here are a few books I read while travelling through Myanmar, and […]
Category Archives: Travel
Time Travelling in Spain
October 14, 2014. For the second half of the day we went back to the time of dinosaurs then fast forwarded to the days of early Christians, then back to […]
Boats in the Mekong River
Going down the Mekong on a variety of boats, passing an interesting variety of boats, big and small. There is a fascinating floating market in Can Tho on the Mekong […]
My First Foreign Trip (But Not My Last)
Wanderlust – once you’ve caught it it never really goes away. As a kid I spent all my money on Viewmaster photos of the world which came complete with a stamp […]
Planning a Trip Around the World at Age 7
My first effort at planning a trip around the world at age 7. My mother once said to me, “As soon as you realized there was a world out there, […]
To Read in Holland: The Tulip Craze (and the First Financial Bubble)
1637 was date of the collapse of the world’s first speculative bubble, all created by a passion for tulips. In Holland people mortgaged their houses to buy and sell tulip bulbs for ever-increasing […]
Experiencing History While Travelling
Some more offbeat ways to experience history while travelling… India’s ancient (and somehow futuristic) astronomical garden in Jaipur. This place felt like I was time travelling but I wasn’t sure whether […]
