Driving in the Atlas Mountains - Algeria has excellent infrastructure. I’ve thought long and hard about how to start this travel blog because I don’t want to put people off the country at the outset. Firstly, perspective — Algeria is a huge country, the ninth largest on earth, almost one and a half times the size of Western Europe, so it’s not a place you’ll explore in a weekend. I was there for a week and I managed to see quite a bit of it — eventually. The explanation for t

Today’s story is inspired by a former colleague and a good mate, who when reading one of my blogs a few weeks ago, said whatever you do, don’t write about the time we got deported from Belarus. Unbeknownst to us both, I had done it two years ago, but it bears repeating….. Phase 1: It is said that to make a mistake once is forgivable, twice is careless and three times is unforgivable. I am therefore on my last chance in relation to Belarus. I have managed (almost) to get mysel

Byala - sunrise over the Black Sea. Lots of people have been asking me about writing and if I was doing anything or getting back to it. As I’ve visited many places, I’ve been told many times that I should do a travel blog or tourist reviews. I’ve done a lot of solo trips by car and just gone where the road takes me. A couple of years ago, I met some people in Bulgaria who told me I should make a business out of it. I’m not so sure about that but here is an unvarnished step–by