Today marks the end of the 10th week since we arrived at Le Plan in Gascony for our usual three-week summer visit. Due to circumstances outside our control we have been unable to return home and for … [Read more...] about Involuntary confinement
La Gascogne
For the first time since the world went into lockdown five months ago we have travelled abroad! Having spent 5 months during which we hardly left Puxley, contemplating a future with seriously reduced … [Read more...] about La Gascogne
Covid Chronicle
Covid Chronicle It is now 12 weeks since we left London for our self-isolation at Puxley, my wife’s farm house in rural Northants, part 18th century, part nineteenth. As luck would have it we had … [Read more...] about Covid Chronicle
Kenya February 2020
When there are so many beautiful places on earth which I have yet to visit it is hard to explain why I keep returning to East Africa, yet I do. It is of course partly the extravagant beauty of the … [Read more...] about Kenya February 2020
Dubai Literary Festival
Dubai for the Literary Festival again, the 12th edition. It was, as ever, lovely to be back, to meet up with old friends and to make new ones. This year Dubai also hosted an informal conference of … [Read more...] about Dubai Literary Festival