My Top 10 of Everything – Fabulous Ancient Sites around the Mediterranean

May 27, 2020.Reading time 11 minutes.

How does one go about selecting just 10 gems! There are some glaring omissions but I’ve tried to give a geographical spread (obviously there could be 10 sites in Greece alone….or Italy….or Egypt….). There are sites here from everyone’s bucket list as well as some lesser known treasures. I’ve visited all ten, some more than […]

Vignettes from a Lifetime of Travel

February 19, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

A is for Abu Simbel In 1981 I visited Egypt for the first time. Aswan was pretty much as far as anyone went by road. At almost 300km further south, Abu Simbel could be reached by river or by a flight which at the time was £90 if I remember correctly and way out of […]