You cannot be serious! We took a mid-morning train to Edinburgh Waverley. As far as I know, it's the only train station named after a...

We visited Betty again today for three hours. By the time we said our goodbyes my mother was tired. It was time for us to go. Betty was...

Today we visited the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum; Glasgow's finest and my favourite for all kinds of reasons (not all of them to...

Glasgow is the city in which I was born. When people ask, "where are you from?" I usually answer "Glasgow" although the fact is I left...

The promenade at Weymouth is a peaceful place at seven o'clock on a Sunday morning. The only sounds are those of the natural world. The...

We are still in Hardy Country -- in a place where his best loved book collides with John Schlesinger's film. A day when 1874 (Thomas...

We were in need of a good location. Spike had arranged to meet her father's sister, Anne, and her husband, Jeff, somewhere in Weymouth....

Sometimes the simplest delights of a long holiday are found in the most unexpected places. This morning that turned out to be adjacent...

After fabulous pastries in the cute café in Pimlico we skipped yesterday, we left London today. Our final hour in the Big Smoke was spent...

Marie Antionette never said the words for which she is most famous. And according to some, the beheaded Queen may not even have said,...

No galleries today. We are simply meeting people. Other people. Just not inside any great cultural institution (unless we're talking...

To paraphrase the 1977 Second World War "blockbuster" movie, A Bridge Too Far starring Dirk Bogarde, Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins and...

We had no plans for today. And after a slow start (which sometimes happens with us quadriplegics) we made it out of the hotel with only...

We visited the British Museum today (for the first time in my life -- strangely enough, given I used to work less than half a mile distant...

I worked in London for three years, back in the early 1980s. I was fortunate to become National Secretary of the National Union of...

I am a comparatively experienced wheelchair traveller. I broke my neck in June1984. I was discharged from hospital ten months later in...

Aujourd'hui nous quittons Paris. Je suis désolé. Mais chaque nuage a une doublure argentée. Nous serons de retour dans quelques semaines...

I do not know when I began to develop the bald spot on the top of my head. I can tell you, however, when I first noticed. We were in...

Today we rise to our first real challenge ... cross the city by train, transfer to the suburban tram, find the market ... buy the purse....

What has it been? Forty hours or thereabouts since Spike loaded the car, said her goodbyes to Thistle the cat, and we set off on our...