World Up!
Regular followers will perhaps know that we have an apartment in the Cypriot village of Peyia, which is in the Western part of this wonderful island, near the popular holiday resort of Paphos - but with a weeks break to plan, we wanted to spend part of the time visiting somewhere new - and for [...]
With Summer just around the corner, it's a great time to get out in the English countryside, and enjoy the unique character of our small towns and villages that can be easily found, usually just a few miles from the busy road networks that span the country. Lindfield is one such village, it has picture [...]
With the beginning of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan earlier this week, I am reminded that I have been working here in Kuwait for a year now; a year that has literally flown by - in the words of Pink Floyd 'every year is getting shorter'. I also realised that I haven't written any [...]
For my final New York blog post (4 blogs from 4 days, not bad eh?), I wanted to share a few photos that didn't quite fit into the themes of the other posts, but which I like nonetheless, so join me on a trip around the city! We start down near the World Trade Centre, [...]
Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, and the 9/11 Museum all in one day, it promised to be a day of wonder, history and high emotion; but it started off really cold, as we left our hotel and walked a couple of blocks for an early egg mcmuffin at the golden arches, before hailing a cab [...]
Like many bloggers, I am also an 'instagrammer' - I joined back in August 2016, and since then have posted 381 times; primarily photos of landscapes and buildings. I typically post once or twice a week, and these days my photos attract an average of about 25 - 30 'likes', so they don't exactly go [...]
Sometimes you need to get away, far away! A 14 hour flight is pretty far, and thats what I did recently, when I flew from Kuwait to New York to spend a 4 day weekend there with Mrs E and her son Aston. However, due to a forced change in my schedule, only 2 of [...]
Over the past few years, being an expat, and working away from home has meant that I spend many working weeks living alone, and one of the downsides of this is that I tend not to eat too well. Whilst I quite enjoy doing a bit of cooking, it's not the same when it's just [...]
Bluewaters is the latest mega-development to be unveiled in the ever-expanding city of Dubai - and one that we have watched grow over the past 3 years that we have lived here. Taking some 5 years to develop, Bluewaters is a man-made Island that has been constructed some 500 meters from the shoreline of Jumeriah [...]
"I HAVE HEARD OF THE GREATNESS OF LIVERPOOL, BUT THE REALITY FAR SURPASSES THE EXPECTATION" – Prince Albert, 1846 A perfect quote to open this post - the 'dock' being walked is The Royal Albert Dock, in the Northern English city of Liverpool. These words were said back in 1846, I wonder what Prince Albert [...]
