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Podcast #013: Travel in West Africa (Part One)
Welcome to Episode 13 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast. Again, this pod was issued this pod…
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West Africa and The Atlantic Slave Trade
I’ve alluded to this before, but remarkably, as Brits, we don’t really learn too much about the British Empire and…
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Podcast #005: Vanuatu
Welcome to Episode 5 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast. As mentioned last time, I recently went…
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Nambas & Cannibals: Culture & History of Malekula
Malekula, the second largest island in Vanuatu, is noted in culture for two things, and they’re kind of related, though…
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The Ballad of August 1993 (and other stories)
So, let me take you back to the heady days of the mid 1990s. What were you up to? Most…
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The Valleys
“The miner in the Rhondda, the coolie in Pekin / Men across the world who reap and plough and spin”…
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Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain
I’ve always been interested in history. But history on my own terms, about topics I can relate to, not necessarily…
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Flanders – … But there *are* no poppies!
Flanders. And no, nothing to do with Ned. I’m sure you’ve all been subjected to the poem at school: “In…
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Pendle Hill – Religion, Witchcraft, and Meteorology
Part of the Pennine range of Northern England, and geologically part of the same branch as much of the Peak…
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Snip Snip Snip – the Cragg Vale Coiners
“I heard the coiners took the scissor to the Union Jack, with a snipper and a clipper and a bloody…
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The Other Dead Sea
The Aral Sea shoreline. It’s pretty cold; I’m even wearing socks. The sky above, coupled with the flat landscape over…
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A morning at Pere Lachaise cemetery
Although the breeze was light, and the rain had stopped before sunrise, I was glad of my fleece. I was…
