A comfortable flight with good service can be a great start to a new adventure or the ideal end as I head home. But hidden costs, bad food, poor service and long delays or cancellations can just about ruin it
10 things I hate about your airline
All aboard the Snow Train
There’s just something about a steam train and the way it can turn grown men and women back into excited little kids. When you combine a ride in a steam train with a trip to the snow the excitement levels
Ticking off famous paintings at the Musée d’Orsay
During a month-long stay in Paris I worked on my art appreciation by adding to my list of ‘famous paintings I have seen.’ I hit the mother lode at Musée d’Orsay. I don’t know much about art – almost nothing
Quiet please – less is more when it comes to noise at Wimbledon
Let us all hope that the gods of tennis see to it that Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka never meet in a Wimbledon final, or any other final for that matter.* It would pose a serious occupational health and safety
Keep off the grass – a tour of Wimbledon
The first and most important rule when touring the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club at Wimbledon, is never, ever touch the grass. The world’s home of lawn tennis takes the cultivation and protection of its famous grass courts very
From Russia without love – Part 3: Moscow Olympic Stadium
Back in Cold War days I read too many spy stories and watched too many Bond films that made want to go to Moscow. I didn’t want to go to the Bolshoi or gasp at Faberge eggs in a museum
From Russia without love – Part 2: The pickled corpse
Stumbling around in the dark to view a pickled corpse is not exactly my idea of fun. But that’s exactly what I did in Moscow when I joined the throngs of Russians and foreign tourists to inspect the preserved remains
From Russia without love – Part 1: Stranger in Moscow
Wandering the streets of Moscow on a warm summer afternoon I was feeling really thirsty. I’d arrived in the city just a few hours earlier and was still recovering from the stress of a bizarre taxi ride. After getting off