Tag: holiday

September 27, 2026

Oman 2024, Part Three: The Gremlins Find Shangri-La

We like to hotel-hop to keep our inner hotelier gremlins happy and fed. A caveat: they do love a property audit, so whenever these recollections meander into an operational review, know that those parts were when the gremlins seized the keyboard.

August 27, 2024

Sri Lanka: Nuwara Eliya’s green gold

Today we are onboard the iconic sky blue train as it puffs stoically up the highlands. Malachite forests roll serenely past, gradually making way for the sweeping tea-bush laden hills of the fabled gardens rising out of the grey mist. It truly is one of the world's great train journeys.

June 16, 2024

Sri Lanka: Ayubowan

To be in Colombo is to be constantly jarred by shifting contrasts.

December 17, 2020

Washington, D.C. 2019

Do we want to try and go on a White House tour? I asked. Not during this administration, my mother replied. So here we finally are, gazing across at the White House and it looks... diminished by the last four years.

July 29, 2018

Autumn 2017: Nerds in Ginevra*

Cheese and fondue and lakes and snow and science. Lots and lots of science at CERN.

July 28, 2018

Autumn 2017: Geneva’s greatest hits

Brunch was followed by a sortie to Lake Geneva, that great deep-blue crescent with its dreamy storybook banks. In the distance, Mont Blanc reared its massive snow-capped head above the clouds.

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