I spent five days as a guest of the Royal Westmoreland gated community in Barbados, attracted by the fact that I would be straying in one of the houses of the sports personalities that have made the resort their home. They were all allured by the award-winning golf course where I was coached in the […]
The church of Notre-Dame-des-Malades, Vichy
The clear highlight of my last visit to the Auvergne was the church of St-Blaise/Notre-Dame-des-Malades in Vichy. Vichy was for centuries France’s prime spa centre with sulphurous and mineral waters which are still prescribed – to be drunk or to be bathed in – for many maladies. Indeed, it was the town’s number of hotels […]
Bolivian Miners: a photo essay
I have been recently looking at my pictures to go with my articles on Bolivia on the Round the World Flights site. Bolivia: Beyond Adventure Did Aliens Cruise in Santa Cruz? Drinking Coca Tea Blinded By the White I am getting increasingly fond of the ones I took of the Potosí silver mine in the […]