This is an interview of mine with Rob Savage, editor of the St Christopher’s backpacker e-Zine in late 2007. This month I caught up with John Malathronas – who you might have become familiar with through our book reviews over the past three months. Here’s what happened when I asked him a selection of travel-orientated […]
What next for Greece?
There is resignation down the phone when I talk to friends who live in Greece. The incredulity of the voices at the other end is palpable. Older relatives are quick to remember the leaner times of the 1940s and the 1950s – and shudder. It seems to them that the image with which they have […]
The Top 12 Films with Laughably Wrong Geography
Last night I watched The Omen (1976) for the first time and was quite surprised at what passed for horror in the 1970s as well as how tinny the cars looked. But what made me sit up and tweet my dismay was the assertion that Megiddo (Biblical Armageddon) was south of Jerusalem. Well, I thought […]