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OK, so I’ve just about cleared searches for “The Apprentice” out of my referral logs (of course until the next series) but a couple of weeks ago Suw said she was helping Saira Khan to set up a blog for a show Radio 5 and now Saira’s going round inviting bloggers to a do next…

So just thinking about moving on from New Orleans, I thought I’d get my Amtrak timetable out.  I looked all through my bags and I couldn’t find it.  i simulaneously found that I could locate my rail pass.  Uh-oh! That’s (part of) my ticket home.  I’m not at all sure about getting to NYC without…

I’m reading Le Carré’s The Honourable Schoolboy. This post contains spoilers but since the book was first published in 1977 I’m going to blunder in anyway. I’m about 150 pages in.  The last 50 pages or so have been a description of a mission that it turns out is all about getting details of a…

Well not quite, but this time next week I’ll have been back in London for 24 hours. So it’s probably time to start counting backwards from then and getting some ideas of things to do between now and Thursday in place. My flight from New York leaves at 7.30pm so I’ll need to be at…

[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/21871782 w=640&h=360] People have asked me how different train travel is in the USA from the UK and Europe.  In this clip you get a flavo(u)r of it by way of the announcements made pre-trip by Nancy our coach car service attendant and the responses from some of my fellow passengers.  I shot this…