London Welcome to London. A long, long queue for immigration as always, but at least it gives you the chance to chat with others from all sorts of places around the world. Not unexpectedly the skies were grey and the temperature on the chilly side. We picked up our hire car and negotiated the horrendous road system around Heathrow onto the ring road only to encounter peak hour traffic. Crawling along at 5 miles an hour trying to get to the hotel was just ...

Singapore It's been about three years since we were here last and what changes we have noticed in Singapore. Familiar places don't look so familiar anymore as new and extraordinary buildings rise up where local open air food courts once stood. Even the satay stalls at Clarke Quay are now gone replaced by shiny new restaurants with neon lights and fancy tables and chairs. Not the same at all, and we were disappointed that one of our highly anticipated meals o...

Europe by Campervan: Many moons ago in our twenties we set off in a campervan and did the "Europe trip". It was great fun, and always the thought that we might do it again lurked in the deep recesses of our minds. So when the opportunity came up to buy a campervan in the UK, with all the attendant difficulties mostly solved, we decided to go ahead. We have bought a quite small camper - the thought of negotiating narrow roads in both mountain passes and quai...