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Postcard from Lille, Part 30

14th September 2019 Always Worth Saying 3366 Comments

I don’t know if you’re familiar with Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’? If not, as usual, put this nonsense to one side and find a copy. I realised that I wasn’t particularly well read the day I dropped the iPad in the bath. Don’t laugh, it was plugged into the [more…]

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HMS Gammon

9th September 2019 DH 8166 Comments

I’d like to open proceedings with a confession: I have never before in my life written a travel piece with even the faintest modicum of honesty or integrity. The truth of the matter is that [more…]

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Postcard from Lille, Part 29

7th September 2019 Always Worth Saying 4641 Comments

Tangled up in the Vizconce massacre investigation and having just escaped from a Filipino jail, I’m now on the run and heading south to lie low long enough to be forgotten about. I have a letter of [more…]

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Cruising on again

2nd September 2019 Sweaty Dave 3825 Comments

Last year, in the spirit of the series of travelogue postcards often presented on this site, I wrote first timer’s guide to going on a cruise. The one in question was a TUI/Marella cruise around [more…]

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Postcard from Lille, Part 28

31st August 2019 Always Worth Saying 2154 Comments

At 5227 San Augustin Street, Makati City, after dark, there were no yellow ribbons for me nor a line of concerned people praying and clutching the rosary. A maid answers the door and looks surprised rather than [more…]

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Postcard from Lille, Part 27

24th August 2019 Always Worth Saying 2147 Comments

If we’re ever in the same place at the same time, I’m the quiet one standing in the corner, keeping his own council, people-watching, shy (or even just plain rude). I might be in my own little [more…]

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Postcard from Lille, Part 26

17th August 2019 Always Worth Saying 2658 Comments

‘I hope that you’ve all studied logical positivism?’ Incarcerated in Paranaque Municipal Jail, part of Metro Manila’s southern urban sprawl, it is boily hot and dark. Thousands of pairs of pin prick brown eyes look at me [more…]

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An Eventful Ride, Part Four

11th August 2019 Going Postal 3882 Comments

Bestie and I were sat in our booth at the gas station’s restaurant at Lee Vining, looking down over Mono Lake. I was still thinking about Clint’s brilliant film “High Plains Drifter”, for this weird [more…]

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Postcard from Lille, Part 25

10th August 2019 Always Worth Saying 3178 Comments

Where should an escaped prisoner escape to? You can’t go to the obvious place as, if it’s obvious, that’s where they’ll be looking for you.  Some other places spring to mind, Paraguay, Switzerland? On receiving a letter [more…]

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