Barbados | Going Postal

Cruising at Christmas (and the New Year) – Part 3

7th February 2020 Going Postal 0

Wednesday – St Maarten (New Years Day) I woke this morning feeling pretty good, somewhat surprisingly considering the volume of champagne consumed last night. Sensibly the restaurant was open for breakfast an hour later than [more…]

Cruising at Christmas (and the New Year) – Part 1

17th January 2020 Going Postal 0

Pre Cruise I have been on a number of cruises on a number of different cruise lines but this is my first Christmas Cruise so I thought I might document it. Some time ago my [more…]

Where the river rages

2nd April 2020 0

This is NOT about the Wuhan virus, but it is about Wuhan. In spring 2013, I travelled by train across China from Guangzhou to Qingdao in the north. Wuhan was more or less the middle [more...]
Atomic Buffalo Turds

29th July 2020 0

The time has come to introduce the uninitiated Puffins of this world to one of the best kept secrets of the culinary world: Atomic Buffalo Turds (ABTs). Don’t ask me how they got their name [more...]
The Unseen Path – Part Eighty Five

17th October 2018 0

One of Andy Bowson’s team spotted movement through the settling dust high up in Broadcasting House and called out; Andy trained his carbine’s telescopic sight on it to see four half naked women lined up [more...]
The Unseen Path – Part Sixty Seven

15th August 2018 0

Andy Bowson headed over to St Thomas’. He wasn’t needed for a while and could be spared while the chiefs tried to talk some sense into higher authority. So why so low now after the [more...]
Postcard from Lille, Part 32

28th September 2019 0

There’s a game to be played with airline names. BA, British Airways, is re-named, ‘Bloody Awful’, Alitalia become ‘Always Late in Take-off and Landing’. And if you don’t realise SAA stands for ‘Sodding Awful Airline’ then [more...]