In 2009 I watched a fabulous BBC series starring Stephen Fry and Mark Carwardine. It was called Last Chance to See, a follow-up to a BBC radio series 20 years earlier when Douglas Adams (of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy fame) and Carwardine had sought out a number of animals teetering on the brink of … Continue reading Last Chance to See
We had low expectations of Jakarta. Expectations which were largely met. It’s a giant city crammed with millions of people but with little soul. There’s the National Monument roughly in the centre, which you can go to the top of for the worst view of Jakarta possible, because you can’t see the National Monument. In … Continue reading Jakarta
There’s a lot of phrases relating stress to physical weight. And I can now tell you how much weight is required for something to become a stressful event. It’s 7.1+kgs. Allow me to explain. I booked our flights to and from Indonesia with Etihad. They had two selling points that trumped all other options. Price. … Continue reading The Etihad Experience
My annual ‘I Win’ post has had to be adapted this year. Fortunately, the adaptation is due to it being a couple of weeks late, rather than this being the year that ‘I Lost’. I’m hoping to keep the ‘I Lost’ post at bay for many years yet. So ‘I Win’ for 2025 is ‘I … Continue reading I Won: 53rd Edition
Bournemouth is, by British standards, a relatively new town. It celebrated its bicentenary in 2010 just as my other home, Mexico, was celebrating its own Bicentenario, So the list of great and good that have called Bournemouth home isn’t as lengthy as many other towns and cities. But what Bournemouth lacks in quantity, it more … Continue reading Jane. Of Bournemouth.
My home town, Bournemouth, has been in the news lately. A small but noisy mob of protesters have been screaming at a pair of hotels which have been housing asylum seekers. Who knew? I had no idea that there were any asylum seekers in Bournemouth. In fact, the first I knew of it was when … Continue reading Bigotry in Bournemouth
If there was one thing that drove me round the bend with my Fuji X-T20, it was geo-tagging my photos. I like to see where they were taken when I look at them later in my Photos app. Just like you can when you take a photo with your iPhone. I used to use a … Continue reading Fuji X-T50 GeoTag
The Mexile 