I look like José Carreras, apparently. My old neighbour Jim Flook (no relation to The Flookys) got me on to this site called MyHeritage.com. You upload a photo of yourself and it uses facial recognition software to match you with the celebrity you resemble the most. I got a 64% match with the least-known of [...]

There was an article about The Wiggles in the music magazine in The Observer yesterday. Reading it reminded me of a conversation I had with an Aussie guy called Andrew at the pub last Saturday. He’d seen The Cockroaches (The Wiggles before they became The Wiggles) play in Canberra and said it was one of [...]

Just a quick thanks to everyone who came along to my talk on Saturday. And to the brave souls who adjourned to the pub up the road afterwards. It was the same pub as last year and I still can’t remember the name of it. The Prince of something, I think. Anyway, you come out [...]

If you’ve subscribed to my newsletter you’ll already know that I’m giving a talk tomorrow at the TNT Travel show in London. It’s on at 2 pm at the New Connaught Rooms, Great Queen Street WC2. (Half way between Holborn and Covent Garden) And it’s about travelling overland between Cape Town and Cairo. If you’re [...]

I visited a web site this morning to see what I was in a past life. Not that I’m unhappy with my current life. I was just interested to see if I had been an Egyptian princess like everyone else. Turns out I was a philosopher and thinker in south-west USA around 1775. (Just to [...]