Driving home to Spike's parents for New Year.

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

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...

We made our way to the summit of the butte Montmartre, drawn by the remarkable Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris, sitting atop the...

Mark Twain once wrote: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, .... Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and...

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...

... eat bread n cheese n croissant n petit pain au chocolate n fruit salad with tart yogurt --- très acidulé -- n drink café au lait...

Word of advice ... Never -- I mean JAMAIS ... never get on a plane for 14 hours in the cheap seats with a tired, grumpy, Scottish...