Something beginning with B? So far this year I’ve visited Bilbao, Biarritz, Barcelona, Brussels and Barry so Bristol more than follows suit and coincidentally it’s a sister city to my former home in Guangzhou. Unlike the others though, this is a city very well known to me. Like Cardiff and Newport I’ll be revisiting some […]
Monthly Archives: May 2018
Barry like Newport suffers a little from negative perception and while it is definitely down to earth in its ‘take me as I am’ appearance, that is to say plenty of taxi and takeaway joints as I alight at Barry (believing it is the main station) the first thing that comes to mind is… Guernica! […]
For the best part of the last year I’ve had the good fortune to travel extensively through eastern and now western Europe by train, ferry and bus. Today it’s the latter I’m going to focus on. The main players currently are: Eurolines, Flixbus and a couple of local biggies like ALSA in Spain, Polskibus in Poland, […]
Is it too pompous electing myself for Desert Island Discs? Obviously I haven’t made a cultural splash in any territory but let’s pretend I did and Kirsty Young or whomever (probably a producer) calls up and says ‘hey do you fancy doing this?’ And let’s say I respond with a resounding affirmative. Well here’s my […]
