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West coast road trip, Femmy and eye gunk

Having returned from Doubtful Sound I spent a day doing nothing much except for eating my second legendary Fergburger (exclusive to Queenstown and open 20 hours of the day) and hunted around in vain...

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Marlborough: tastes, sights and Sounds

I arrived in Blenheim to a pleasant surprise. This small city is, to us, merely the staging area for the food and wine festival, hosted at the Branscott Estate winery on its outskirts, I hadn’t given a...

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Nelson and Christchurch and bye bye NZ!

After a jaunt to Kaikoura — which incorporated none of the things it’s famous for (dolphin swimming: booked up; stunning mountain views: overcast; crayfish: soooo overpriced but a few things it isn’t...

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Fiji… or Africa?

Fiji. Weird. Of all things I’m transported straight back to Africa. The smell – both natural and polluted – the humidity, the taxi experience – both the fare negotiation and the rickety vehicle – and...

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The trouble with paradise

In my head, the Fiji part of the trip went something like this: 1) Land in Nadi, Fiji 2) Catch a boat to paradise island from outside the airport 3) Be lying on hammock drinking cockatils in the sun...

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See you back at The Ranch – or not

I don’t often rejoice in a demise, but the closure of The Ranch on Whiteladies Road in Bristol, gave me a little frisson of schadenfreude. The axe is entirely mine to grind, so let me just paint the...

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Concert review: All Shall Be Well (The Exultate Singers)

9th May 2012 St Pancras Church, Euston Road Exultate Singers, David Ogden (conductor), Richard May (cello) and Richard Johnson (organ) As the closing concert in the London Festival of Contemporary...

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Jubilee River Swim – my 10k challenge

On 2 June, on a glorious sunny June morning on the banks of the River Thames, just outside London, I and several friends set out on a 10 kilometre (6-mile) swim of the ‘Jubilee’ River. How it all...

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Nightrider – 100km of London by bike by starlight

At some point in the last 6 months it seemed to me a good idea not only to sign up to a 10k open water swim, but to also sign up to a 100km bike ride. That’s vaguely like doing two marathons in a week,...

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3 nights in Bangkok make a guy…

One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble, as the lyric goes. I wondered what 3 nights would do to a soft guy from the home counties. In film and literature the city is depicted as a tough, murky...

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