Well ı f ıt s Tuesday ıt must be Ephesus and ıt seems that 20.000 other people are of the same opınıon as we fıght our way through tour guıdes chatterıng away ın every language known to man whıle small Japanese snappers clıck away and very large Amercıans push and shove through the throng to see what must have been one of the great cıtıes of Europe at o ne tıme but whıch ıs pretty much now a collectıon of faırly badly put together b...

Getting ready to travel in warm places again - leaving Friday 28th August for Middle East - but doubt that I'll find any drink quite like the can of SWEAT I found in Indonesia. At the time it didn't taste too bad but on reflection maybe Diet Coke has the edge on it.

Not even site seeing............just sitting as my desk for the moment and thinking of what I might do on my next two trips which will take me to Scotland in May and Guatemala - via New York in July. Not long back from Spain where I spent most of a week sitting in the sun and reading six books in seven days! Managed to test some of my poor Spanish on a local shepherd who is now probably pretty confused as to what might be done with his flock of sheep! Ten d...

Just got back a couple of days ago and wanted to say thanks to everyone who has been contacting me on the trip and helping me to keep rolling along. Now into seven months of bills and paperwork and getting everything back in place but yesterday managed to look at the travel section of a Sunday paper so............... Chose the picture for the card 'cause it is the family castle of the Clan McRae! Gordon

Just in case you have been kind enough, to have logged on to this site I thought I should thank you for your curiousity! Who said "every journey starts with the first step"? Answers please on the notice board - sorry there are no prizes. Anyway....I expect to be on my way to Heathrow enroute for India on the 18th October, after which I hope to keep the casual visitor to this site amused as we go along. Before I step out I thought you mi...