Category Archives: Travel

A pre-Christmas ramble

Posted on December 8, 2017 by

My double life requires me to switch from working in advertising agencies, back to picking up the threads of my creative life and vice versa. My most recent agency stint was with a lovely crew at DDB Remedy in London, … Continue reading →

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Yeats’s Tower and Coole Park

Posted on February 21, 2017 by

So having carried Yeats’s words about in my head for 40 years, it was amazing to finally get to look at Thoor Ballylee, a one time home of the poet, and a place which had an enormously powerful symbolic presence … Continue reading →

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Rattling locked doors

Posted on February 11, 2017 by

I’m having a bit of a fanboy moment. I am off next weekend to Eire, and I hope to have a look at Thoor Ballylee where my all time poetic hero, W.B.Yeats, once lived. Although it is out of season … Continue reading →

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Peter Caton’s Chad photos

Posted on August 5, 2016 by

Some of Peter Caton’s photograph from our trip to Chad are here on the Guardian Online. Pete’s shot of many of the people of the the village meeting under a good tree is typical of his excellent work. For the people … Continue reading →

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Filming in the centre of Chad

Posted on October 19, 2015 by

As an Africa newbie, a visit to Chad was in at the deep end. Chad is a landlocked country unappetisingly described by Wikipedia as the ‘dead heart of Africa’. It proved a difficult place to gain entry to. Despite having … Continue reading →

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Ready for Chad and missing writing poetry

Posted on October 1, 2015 by

Chad Final stage of prep seems now to be done. Passport renewed, visa obtained, jabs jabbed (although inconveniently I had a fever when I went for my yellow fever jab so I had to return a few days later) anti-malarial … Continue reading →

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Preparations for Chad

Posted on September 20, 2015 by

Planning now well advanced for the trip to Chad in two weeks. For me this has already meant several jabs, and the final one, yellow fever, will be done privately next week. I’ve also had to buy some lightweight, UV … Continue reading →

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Chad, Telltale Press and some poetry acceptances

Posted on September 7, 2015 by

I am off to Chad. In less than a month I shall be going to what is, according to the United Nations human development report 2011 is the fifth poorest nation on earth. I will be part of a small … Continue reading →

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Bram Stoker and the Genius Loci of Whitby Abbey

Posted on September 2, 2015 by

As a teenager I went through a Clark Ashton Smith phase. Smith wrote fantasy horror stories like his friend H.P. Lovecraft and employed an ornate vocabulary. Being foxed by his vocabulary  forced me to learn the meaning of words such as … Continue reading →

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The treasures of Greek poetry

Posted on August 16, 2015 by

Just back from a couple of weeks in Thassos, the northernmost Greek island of the Aegean, and Kavala on the mainland. While Lorraine and I did lots of site-seeing, notably at the site of Phillipi a short drive from Kavala, and also, rather … Continue reading →

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