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The 19:13 From Gare de Lyon

7th January 2023 Always Worth Saying 7896 Comments

In a previous edition gleaned from my family’s 1950s road trips album, from the top of the Eiffel Tower we noticed an interesting double-decker bridge carrying both a road and a railway across the River [more…]

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Eastern Tide Meets Western Shore – Part Two

8th September 2021 Always Worth Saying 3932 Comments

Aleppo ‘No, Monsieur. I have only two other passengers – both English. A colonel from India, and a young English lady from Baghdad. Does Monsieur require anything?’ Monsieur demanded a small bottle of Perrier. Five [more…]

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Eastern Tide Meets Western Shore – Part One

27th July 2021 Always Worth Saying 2405 Comments

I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong hills. The equator runs across these highlands a hundred miles to the north, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six [more…]

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Postcard from Lille, Part 13

27th April 2019 Always Worth Saying 3355 Comments

Over chai in the subcontinent, balut in the tropics or roast swan in an Oxbridge refectory the topic of conversation might turn to ‘given the chance, would you kill baby Hitler?’ In Latin this would [more…]

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Postcard from Lille, Part 12

20th April 2019 Always Worth Saying 2336 Comments

I had an uncle who was an excellent chap from a very proud, hardworking but rather modest background. He’s the one who was on the railway (a reserved profession) during the war but managed to [more…]

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Postcard from Lille, Part 11

13th April 2019 Always Worth Saying 3647 Comments

You may wonder, dear reader, after ten episodes and a prologue, where all this is leading. It certainly doesn’t seem to be leading to Lille. Bear with me. You’ll recall that, for obvious reasons, the [more…]

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Postcard from Lille, Part 10

6th April 2019 Always Worth Saying 3143 Comments

Previously I mentioned my ‘backs and forwards’ between the north of England across the Atlantic to North America. You may recall the ‘drink the air fare’ mile high club. These happened between the Pan Am [more…]

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Postcard from Lille, Part 9

16th March 2019 Always Worth Saying 3830 Comments

On a previous trip across the English Channel many years ago, I was returning to England via Calais to Dover on the ferry as a foot passenger. I was sat on deck minding my own [more…]

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Postcard from Lille, Part 8

9th March 2019 Always Worth Saying 2753 Comments

I’ve settled myself down in modest but adequate lodgings in Istanbul and get into the habit of a daily stroll just after sun down. It’s a five minute walk down to the Bosphorus where a [more…]

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