Wimbledon Station at 00:09
…the magical time, at a deserted Wimbledon train station, when all the tickets machines have reset themselves in unison, all ready for me to renew my week’s travelcard, instead of having to queue in the mayhem t[…]

The Amtrak Pacific Surfliner route between Santa Ana and Los Angeles-Union Station
The (semi)regular route that I use for getting somewhere which I enjoy the most, hands down, is the one where I get to wait, on either end, in two of the loveliest tra[…]

Best holiday drink
Pete’s piece below about best meals didn’t evoke any holiday meals with me, but it did bring back the greatest drink I have ever had. We (my wife and I) had arrived in Calcutta early in the morning, and our train down t[…]

COMPLIMENTARO!!! Travel is about the people, the places, the sites ? but I my favourite bit is ver nosh. Therefore when I think about the best meal I have ever eaten, I think about a place on my travels. The Hotel Ranuka in Columbo did the finest Sr[…]

The best way to learn about another culture is to try and sell its people useless shit over the telephone. Or at least this is the premise behind the Working Holiday visa. The visa, which is probably unknown to most Americans, allows persons aged 18 […]

So near and yet so far — growing up near the Mexican border is something that for a lot of folks automatically suggests ‘rite of passage.’ I wasn’t right ON the border but the whole idea of some other place just right nearby &[…]

i. note that no actual night or sleep to speak of intervene between day zero and day one = i am “awake” from 2.45am to midnight-ish ii. n’mes is a tiny small roman airport to a tiny small roman city once long ago but no longer the c[…]

It’s funny that Tom’s travel writing malaise inspired this month’s Blog 7 theme, because my love of travel writing is precisely what piqued my interest in the blog. That’s not to say that I disagree that the “travel writ[…]

Travel month eh? Well I am writing this on a plane, how is that for travel. I still cannot get blas’ about air travel, despite doing it twelve times already this year. What I have become to particularly like is the quirks of the individual comp[…]

My morning and evening bus routes
Don’t give me that look — it’s travel, it’s just travel on a low scale. And after all, I do go from one city to another, every working day. It’s a well known route, to be sure, but it […]