In America
15 January 2025 | Living
Despite thinking I really should avoid the USA I was back again in 2024 – after visits in 2022 and 2023 – and I’ve blogged on Charleston, Kansas City, St Louis and road-tripping across the state of Missouri. Although I did not get to the state of Kansas (I really thou...
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St Louis – gateway city to the Missouri River
26 December 2024 | Places
My December 2024 USA road trip took me from Kansas City (western edge of Missouri) to St Louis (eastern edge). From a half million population city to a quarter of a million (and declining?), but US city centre versus metropolitan boundaries numbers are always confusin...
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Kansas City – which is not in Kansas
23 December 2024 | Places
So there’s the first thing that’s so surprising about Kansas City. It’s not in Kansas, it’s in Missouri, OK a bit of it sprawls across into Kansas, but most of it is in Missouri. Surprise two is it is so amazingly quiet. OK it’s the day after Thanksgiving, that might ...
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Charleston – the US Deep South
18 December 2024 | Places
In 2022 I made a little USA and Canda Road Trip with British travel journalist Simon Calder. We started in Milwaukee, went north to Green Bay, Wisconsin, spent a night in delightful Eau Claire, cut across to Hibbing, Minnesota and managed to visit Bob Dylan’s childhoo...
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Melbourne to London the long way with the odd problem
28 May 2023 | Transport
A few years ago I travelled London to Melbourne in about 28 days, all of it on flights of just an hour or two by Low Cost Carriers, airlines like Ryanair, easyJet, Pegasus, Fly Dubai, IndiGo or Air Asia.
Now I’ve just arrived in London from Melbourne, a trip that t...
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