The Getaway Guide for Men – New York!
Gentlemen, this is the big one. Unlike Paris or Rome, the flight alone takes some commitment so if you’re planning a trip to New York with your lady-friend there’s a good chance that you’ve reached the stage in your relationship where she no longer feels guilty dragging you around shops. If so, be prepared –...
The Getaway Guide for Men – Paris!
“The only thing wrong with Paris is …” the cliché we all know and shamelessly love is not entirely unfounded. Parisians are renowned – even in the rest of France – for their acrimony over their sense of style, etiquette and (dare I say?) baguettes. If you speak French you’ve got a better chance...
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The Getaway Guide for Men – Rome!
The eternal city has more culture, romance and swarthiness than George Clooney and Penelope Cruz’s lovechild draped in Dolce & Gabbana. Even people who haven’t visited know this to be true and, for this reason, it’s deemed the most romantic city in the world. Feared by all ‘blokey-blokes’ as the place most likely to bore...
The Getaway Guide for Men
The guide that de-mystifies the appeal for a couple’s romantic getaway and gives ideas to men on things to see and do for him and her! There once was a time when you could get away with taking your girlfriend to any all-inclusive Expat haven so long as there was a beach and a sturdy...
An Alien on the 4th July
Typical of a travel writer to beg, with pulverized platitudes of “get off the beaten track” nonsense but for the cynical British traveller in the US it’s not just important – it’s downright necessary! In the rural areas, or ‘boondocks’ of the US you don’t get the pretentious rich kids ‘finding themselves’ in ‘Ye Olde...
“Technocracy vs Democracy” – There’s a distinction between the two?! Why do we vote again?
When I moved to Athens I became political, in a curious rather than knowledgeable sort of way. It’s difficult not to when you’re left weeping in a changing room stall after walking past the government building. I’m not the most emotional of sorts normally but the volume of tear gas released in that square the...
Ode to a Bicycle – A Giddy Guide to Amsterdam
The Amsterdam pedal-brake bike is the happiest means of transport in the world. Ever. Audacious? Intrepid or imbecilic statement you may hasten to judge, but hear me out… I don’t mean just any pedal bike when I make this statement. I wouldn’t want my fervour being clouded by rugged mountain-bikes or poncey lycra-supporting racers. It...
“Hirst’s Dots …or is that Spots?” Gagosian Gallery, Athens 2012
Leaning over the wash-basin, where I normally do my thinking and, therefore, little of it. I contemplate having just volunteered to go to the Athenian arm of Gagosian’s continent-spanning galleries and review Damien Hirst’s most recent foray into exhibitionism. I’m most definitely of two minds about this review since my first piece for Flaneur was...
The Art of Boozing
The sun bid farewell to the Acropolis’ marble and lay her head down behind the ripples of the Mediterranean far out of view. For the longest trice, the Parthenon is plunged into darkness, suffocating under its weight, before a warm supplicating glow from lamps mirrors the sun’s downward rays of day. Basking at the base...
