Travel writing and photography from Turkey, England, Scotland, Hungary, Ukraine and Russia
May 4, 2012 Leave a comment
My feature on the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II can be read in the May 2012 issue of Panorama, the in-flight magazine of Ukraine International Airlines.
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April 14, 2012 Leave a comment
Jacques Rudolph faces Tim Murtagh at Lord's
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At the close of the third day of the LV County Championship match between Middlesex and Surrey at Lord’s, Surrey were just 46 runs from a victory target of 141, with six wickets remaining. Read more of this post
October 13, 2011 Leave a comment
London, October 2011
And so, after years of dreams and snuffed-out plans, I am finally writing about the markets of Central Asia, and being read by tens of thousands of people. But there’s an unsatisfying catch: the markets are the pharmaceutical, financial and energy ones, not ones filled with exotic people and food. The readers are clients of the company that I work for in England.
A year and a bit since swapping small, traditional Kyiv for vast and multi-cultural London, my world has never seemed so short of variety. In Ukraine every day was unusual, memorable. I used to type up the eventful parts of my week into a 1,000-word blog; now I can write about 14 months in half as many.
November 30, 2009 2 Comments
Photographs of St. Paul’s Cathedral and London’s Embankment area, taken in November 2009.
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July 15, 2009 Leave a comment
London, December 2008
I grew up in Sussex just an hour away from the capital, but the journey on the train was always so expensive that the only opportunities I had to experience life in the big city were when my parents would take me to watch sport. My Dad and I used to lose our voices singing “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” at the Twickenham rugby ‘Sevens’ each spring, and bring fleeces and flasks to watch cricket at Lord’s or the Oval every summer. My Mum took me to the Olympia horse show in the Christmas holidays. Until I was fifteen I must have thought that the city was just a collection of sports grounds.
February 1, 2009 Leave a comment
This photo, taken on Oxford Street in London just before Christmas, perfectly captures the mood of the city. Three symbols of British identity – fish and chips, a red London bus and tartan – are complemented by examples of the international faces, food and fashion that make life in the capital so wonderfully diverse.
