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Picture by Psyche There probably aren’t very many people who aren’t familiar with James Herriot, the country vet who motored around t...

Since 2010, after leaving her homeport in Seville,  El Galeón Andalucía  has been cruising around the world visiting various po...

The most memorable account I can think of about the BMH Hospital in Alexandria, Egypt, is Roald’s Dahl’s in Going Solo . Dahl is best kn...

To most of us, a hundred years ago probably seems like ancient history…it was that place where women wore their hair in buns, horses ...

I've done the unthinkable. The unspeakable. The unfathomable. But hopefully not the unforgivable. I missed a blog post. I was going ...