Like most people of peasant stock, I regard education as an incredible privilege — one my forebears never had. But what did I actually get? Often (not always, but often) …
More +Five-fer
I completed a 10-mile journey by canoe yesterday (with my companion, Jon) from the village of Hoarwithy in Herefordshire to the town of Ross-on-Wye. It is a free-flowing wild …
More +The Beginner’s Guide to the Turkish Elections
When? June 24. Again? Yes, following general elections in 2011, June and November 2015, and a referendum only 12 months ago. This is because incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — a …
More +The Road to Oxiana
Robert Byron’s The Road to Oxiana is fascinating as a travelogue through 1930s Iran and Afghanistan, at a time when vehicular roads were in their infancy, ancient practices were in …
More +Unrestricted avian migration
In my son’s new book, Robins, Wrens and other British Birds, it reads: “In springtime, many of the birds you see will have come from far away. Each year, some …
More +If Venice is a theme park, it must be the best theme park in the world
Forget Disneyland. Venice really is the ultimate kids’ destination. I arrived in Venice on the weekend that the city’s mayor, Luigi Brugnaro, had planned to put into action his new …
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