American beckons! Very smooth flight over. The films very Marie Antoinette (which wasn’t all that) and Man of the Year which was absolutely, and unexpectedly, awesome! Very very funny. I wasn’t going to bother watching it, until I heard everyone else on the plane laughing, so decided to plug in the headphones. Glad I did. […]

I’ve now been told by two different people that I’ve got Amsterdam all wrong, and am basing my opinion the sleezy bit – which I guess is a fair enough comment. If I’d arrived in London for the first time on a wet February afternoon and spent an hour walking around either Kings Cross or […]

I’m afraid I was very dull at Amsterdam, and checked in to the nearest hotel, in this case the Sheraton. I considered getting a train into town to find one there, but I didn’t know how the trains worked, and I had all my bags with me, so the Airport Sheraton it was. Very nice […]

This entry was more wry the first time I wrote it, but it appears to have vanished without a trace so I’m not feeling wry anymore. Probably not a bad summary of the whole trip, actually!! That said, the trip started off ok, really – in as much as “starting” means “getting to the airport […]

One thing I forgot to mention was that we were there for the start of Lent, which of course meant Shrove Tuesday – Mardi Gras! To mark this event, there was a carnival in Funchal which we all went to. It was actually quite fun – lots of people walked by, or came by on […]

Oh the life of an international jet-setter (as if). Just got back from a lurvely holiday in Funchal, Madeira (as in Madeira wine) – part of an Portuguese archipelago of islands off the coast of Morroco (like 1000km) in the mid Atlantic. Lovely island – friendly people, beautiful scenery, that sort of thing. Not that […]

Just had the pleasure of a last-minute work trip to the US – Boston to be exact – that, while I didn’t really get to see very much except the hotel and the people I was visiting, did afford half a day in downtime Boston, and of course the joys of international air travel. I […]

You hardly ever see hitch-hickers these days, do you? I remember about 15 or 20 years ago, it seemed you could never drive down a motorway slip road without seeing a chap with his thumb sticking out… But now I can’t remember the last time I saw someone trying to hitch a ride. Until just […]

Just made a scary discovery – I first signed up to It’s Your Turn nearly six years ago! Since then I have lost 62% of the games of Chess I have played on the site, and most of those to my friend penguin. Ho hum – but then it’s the taking part that counts! If […]

Thank goodness – the end of 2006. What a horrid year. Here’s to 2007!