Landschlacht, Switzerland, 5 July 2016 Why do people travel? For each person there are personal, individual reasons for venturing outside our personal comfort zones into the Great Unknown. But essentially I think it is a quest to learn something new, something previously undiscovered, not yet experienced before. Travellers seek to challenge themselves by discovering who they themselves… Continue reading Canada Slim behind bars 3: Prisoners of choice
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The price of progress (Oxford and Gatwick)
“I have the greatest respect for Oxford University and its 800 years of tireless intellectual toil, but I must confess that I’m not entirely clear what it’s for… See all these dons and scholars striding past, absorbed in deep discussions about the Leibniz-Clarke controversy or post-Kantian aesthetics and you think: Most impressive, but perhaps a… Continue reading The price of progress (Oxford and Gatwick)
Life among the Oxonians
Back in the south of England after some time spent up in Oxford, a place I once called home for a number of months over two decades ago, a place that still has a hold upon my heart, and happily a place where I still have friends. It was and remains one of the fastest… Continue reading Life among the Oxonians