Travel

Diary of a bike

We get to London and I had the exquisite pleasure of being ridden through St Pancras, which has to be the most glamourous and charming station in London.

Holiday in Galicia

Beginning of September: one week of holidays left, after a month in Scotland and a month on the land. We are exhausted, but one week of sleep is too much to ask. A holiday, especially our particular brand (no planning, no destination, pure chaos, something between the frantic and the sublime) sounds so much like […]

Doing the Transfag

When I first heard about the Transfagarasan road it was described with a sense of awe, as “the higest road in Europe”

Stephanie in Africa

It’s 6.45, Monday night, my birthday. I’ve told no-one. The rain on the corrugated iron roof sounds like a large, angry waterfall crashing to earth. It’s only completely dark because the clouds are blackl It almost feels as if the world is coming to an end in this most Christian of countries.
After a lunch on […]

Cycling to St Tropez

By Andrew Wolfe Murray
I want to let you know about something that Jamie Hockin and I will do in September. Please visit this website for full details, but the premise is to do 1000 miles in 10 days: London to St Tropez.
Why?

Impressions of Edinburgh

Click here to see Rupert’s photos of Edinburgh
When I went to Edinburgh recently I expected to see high street shops selling off their stocks at huge discounts and “everything must go” signs.  But I was surprised to find that it looked like “business as usual” and I didn’t see any boarded up windows,  stray dogs,  […]

How to get a grant

Rupert was inspired by a Siberian and his wife whom he met in Montenegro. He wrote this article in order to advise him how to get a grant.

A taste of old times

By Monica
It’s been a while, but I’m back. Let me recount.
My holiday from writing started over a month ago (first it was a relief, then a creeping cramp, growing and gnawing, and now a numbness I struggle to overcome. To do so I’ve so far tried coffee, lists, and compulsive cooking. Nothing worked, but at […]

Balkan Railway

A travel article by Rupert

Christmas holiday slideshows

See Rupert and Moona’s Christmas photos …

An old poem by Lara

A few years ago
When I was in France
My mum wanted to go
And see some white statues.
But I didn’t
And I started crying.
I sat on a rock
I liked them.
People came to ask me
Questions in their language,
And then my mum came to ask
Me why I was crying.
So we didn’t go
To the white statues
But we went somewhere else.
By Lara […]

Writing on the fly

We’re about to get in a taxi and go to the airport where we will board a Lufthansa plane, change in Frankfurt, and tonight we’ll be in Scotland.  Meanwhile, from another corner of Europe is coming another contingent of Wolfe Murray’s — Moona’s mob — but they’re journey is complicated compared to ours: Moona is […]