EasyJet begin flying to Amman, the capital of Jordan, three times a week from London Gatwick from 27 March 2011. With the current, fast-moving state of political change in the Middle East, it’s impossible to predict what will happen to the way the country is governed by the time the first flight takes off. … Continue reading
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Monster views from the wild Newfoundland coast
This article by the writer first appeared in the Mail on Sunday, 14 January 2002 ‘There. I saw another one. And this time it was right out of the water.’ We were sitting in a restaurant – in Newfoundland. My wife had the superior air of the person in the seat looking out over one of… Continue reading →
Snowdrifts of silent grief
Three ranks of neat black granite headstones protrude to knee height through the snow. Each stone is etched with the same date, April 15, 1912. The only sound in this hillside cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is the growl of a diesel loco in the nearby rail freight yard, but I sense I am in… Continue reading →
Eagles soar over Nova Scotia's wonder of the world
The Bay of Fundy is both geographical superlative and natural theatre on an epic scale. And, literally, out of this world choreography. We must credit its astounding year round, twice daily performances to the moon. I could see the waters of the highest tide on earth out over the rolling fields of Kings County, an… Continue reading →
France's estuary city rises again – with new elephant and an old castle
Good old Google. They don’t need, like everyone else, the occasion of the big round number anniversary to celebrate somebody’s life. How long did it take you to work out what the antique portholes meant in Google’s ornate and rather clever (well, aren’t they all?) doodle on Tuesday February 7? It is, of course, the… Continue reading →
Kings of the castles – the glory of Wales
“Know, Sir, that Llewelyn ap Gruffydd is dead, his army broken and all the flower of his men killed.” This despatch from his winning troops at the front was all the planning permission Edward the First required to begin one of the most intimidating programmes of military construction of the Middle Ages. Within three months,… Continue reading →