Just spent a few days at the northern most part of Britain without an internet connection or mobile coverage. So far in the Shetlands I’ve hung out with a Kiwi guy who tracked down the bay his family rowed out of when they set of for NZ in 1840. Chewed the fat with some chaps [...]

Just off to see The Proclaimers officially close the Highland Games. They’re playing in a big tent in Bught Park. The tent is slightly longer than it was meant to be. The original tent they were going to use got torn at a festival in Ireland. The upside for the promoters is that they can [...]

Yep. It’s that time again. I’m another year older but not necessarily any wiser. I’m currently in Inverness, knocking back a pint of Tennents as I avail myself of the free WiFi at the local Smith & Jones pub. I’m up here for the Highland Games which start tomorrow. And then a week up on [...]

I’m heading out to Norfolk for a week for a family holiday. Judging by the BBC’s five day forecast it’ll be your typical English summer holiday – three days of rain followed by a couple of cloudy ones with intermittent sunshine. Should be fun. In the meantime, if you find yourself at a loose end, [...]

Popped over to the Forum at Kentish Town on Friday night to see the Hoodoo Gurus. It was the London leg of the tour that took them to Glastonbury. I went with Uncle Hunty, a regular contributor to this blog. Hunty’s a big bloke so we didn’t have to worry about any knife-wielding teenagers on [...]

I got an email the other day from a company called CheapoAir. They offer ‘low cost airfares and travel products for budget travellers’ and asked me to do an unbiased, paid for review of their website. I don’t know how much they were offering. I didn’t ask. Paid for reviews – unbiased or otherwise – [...]

It took three trains and seven hours but I finally got back from Glasto. Four of those seven hours were spent waiting for connecting trains, sitting on platforms and scaring away other passengers with my wild-eyed, hygiene-challenged festival aura. Or it could have just been the white Wayfarers I bought on impulse and made me [...]