I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the episode of Amazon with Bruce Parry last night on BBC2. He hung out with the Achuar tribe in northern Peru who start each day with an extended bout of vomiting, induced by a local drink called Wayus. Later he got stuck into one of their [...]

I mean, it hasn’t even been officially decided upon yet. But I got sent this cover art for the UK edition of Vroom by the Sea and I just had to show it to you guys. I love it. The illustration. The typography. The colours. It’s the first cover I’ve ever been sent that I’m [...]

Ryanair are having a sale until midnight tomorrow night. According to the big ad on their website you can get flights for £10 one-way with no other fees or taxes. If you got to Gdansk – like we are- it’s even cheaper. Just £5 per person each way. It’s not until you go to pay [...]

I’ve got a friend back in Australia who has supported Manchester City his entire life. Whenever I see a Man City result I think of him and wonder how he’s taking the win/loss/draw. The recent sale of City to an Abu Dhabi investment group means I’ve been thinking of him a lot. Without even speaking [...]

Got this in an email from LaFraise.com this morning and thought I’d share it with. It’s a design that’s going to get whacked on one of their t-shirts. La Fraise are a cool online t-Shirt company. Designers send in designs. Customers choose their favourites. And the designs that get the most votes get printed. The [...]

I had a 23-hour stopover in Bangkok on the way back to the UK. The flight from Oz didn’t quite connect with the flight to London so the airline put me up in a hotel in Sukhumvit, right next to the Nana Skytrain station. It was kind of bittersweet being in Bangkok. The first time [...]

I’ve got a story in a new Lonely Planet anthology called ‘Flightless: Incredible Journeys without leaving the ground.’ It’s called ‘The Forty Year Old (Vespa) Virgin’ so no prizes for guessing what it’s about. And because it’s the first story in the book you can read most of it using the ‘Search Inside’ feature on [...]

My dad passed away last week. Luckily I had time to fly out to Oz and spend a couple of days with him before it happened. Since then I’ve been dealing with all the other stuff that happens after someone dies – flowers, coffins, photo tributes etc etc etc. As my sister Vanessa so succinctly [...]