Reaching passport control without your passport
Well that’s a first! Landing back at your UK airport, walking down the steps onto the runway … and then realising you’ve put your passport into the hold and you can’t get through passport control. How is that even possible? Well that happened to me just last week as I returned from the Berlin Marathon,…
Mail Rail at London’s Postal Museum
On Friday 28th July 2017 The Postal Museum opened to visitors for the first time. From 4th September onwards visitors were able to take a ride on London’s latest heritage attraction, the “Mail Rail”. Tickets for both are now on sale at postalmuseum.org. So what is ‘Mail Rail’? Mail Rail is the secret Post Office…
Driving a vintage Fiat 500 around Tuscany Italy
I’ve always wanted to have a go at driving a vintage Fiat 500 ever since my pal Hornblowertravels mentioned them many years ago with his ultimate goal of driving one back to the UK across the Alps. That never happened but while planning a week’s break to Florence (inspired by the Dan Brown book Inferno)…