The Brazilian flag has featured a lot in London recently, what with the Olympics, the Paralympics and the choice of Rio as the seat of the Football (or Soccer) World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016. So much of the international bunting I’ve seen has got it wrong and many have asked me […]
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 […]
French Opening Hours
There always comes a time in a traveller’s French itinerary, when you arrive hungry at a restaurant at 2pm in the afternoon only to hear “Fermé monsieur”. This is a shock to Anglo-Saxons who live in a world where customer is king – only to realize that there is an alternative Universe with a Gallic […]