I was wandering around London’s South Bank the other day, soaking up the atmosphere of my favourite city, when I stumbled across something rather fabulous in the ballroom of the Royal Festival Hall. It’s called aMAZEme – and it’s a maze made of a quarter of a million books – with the design based…
I had a rare treat last week – while back in the UK for a few days, I was taken on a walk through the pages of a book My friend Jean Fullerton writes fabulous books – set in the East End of London. I had read three of them – and the fourth was…
Not long ago, I shared a plane journey with a woman who was heading to Haiti to continue charity work with the victims of the terrible earthquake in 2010. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed or left homeless by the earthquake. At the time the world rallied to offer aid – but these…
A trip to Caribbean – that can only mean one thing – Captain Jack Sparrow. With this in mind – and clutching my camera, I set out from my hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico in search of pirates. And if you’re looking for pirate – where else but in a fortress. It’s really…
The New York Subway is a place of endless fascination… its dark and noisy and hot (or freezing cold). In a single journey, I can hear half a dozen languages spoken, converse with a man in a gorilla suit, listen to a remarkably good (or bad) busker and be tempted to buy anything from…
There was one day left of the Janet and John Holiday Experience… After a couple of days of missiles and explosions, star gazing and sunset walks, it was time to end the trip with something completely different. After missing the Aliens at the VLA, and the ocean at white sands – there was another…
Imagine pure soft white sand… Elegant sweeping dunes shaped by the wind. Feel the sand between your toes as you walk to the crest of a rise, to look out over the wide open… dirt. OK – what happened to the ocean? Apart from missiles and telescopes and other space-related activity, New Mexico also…
If you’re not already aware of my Sci Fi tendencies – this is probably your first visit to this blog – so welcome. Given my childhood love for Mr Spock, what else am I going to do on my New Mexico visit than go talk to Aliens. No, not the fake ones at Roswell.…