So with six full days in Ostend, and no car to get about in, we decided to spend 3 days local and go on coach…

So, we are in Ostend. None of us have ever been here before – we are in a strange city in a strange country where…

When I first joined the police aged nineteen, one of the first things that we were told at training college was “No matter how good…

February 1976. I know it was February because my wife, who was a teacher, was off school – so it must have been half-term. We…

I can’t believe that nearly 4 months has passed since I last posted here. Life has certainly been strange. Here in Wales we entered into…

If there is one area in which the British can be relied upon to excel, it is in the field of pomp and pageantry. In…

Most of the blogs that I have posted in this series contain (I hope) an element of humour….This post will be different. It concerns an…

 Was thinking about a fellow I met back in the early nineties. I was on a four year backpacking adventure in Asia, and this guy…

The early pre-dawn mornings are my favorite times. After tending to my morning chores, feeding the cat, setting the automatic coffee maker on, and checking…

Every morning my grandma knocked very loudly on my bedroom door at 5 am. Not a minute earlier, but maybe a few minutes later, depending…