Hello! I haven't posted anything on here for a long time, mainly because I haven't been travelling much and you don't particularly want to read about my job. I am going travelling again in December, for six months... I won't be writing about it here though. For logistical reasons* I have decamped to a rival website. I also have my own url now - http://thehedgehogfromhell.com - so if you go there then you'll see a link to the new travel journal. Which doesn't ha...

Hello from sunny Newburgh-upon-Ythan! [That's pronounced like "python", by the way.] I have finally returned to Scotland, having had more tedious messing about with British Airways (more on that later). When I got back and finally started recovering from jet-lag, I had yet more tedious messing about with this very STA Travel Journals website (more on that later, too). If you saw the start of an entry from Newburgh that appeared in the early hours of...

Meet the hedgehog. He will appear at various points around the world, sitting on top of historically important monuments, or people (who may or may not turn out to be historically important - let history be their judge, but surely the first step towards greatness is to be photographed with THE HEDGEHOG). Thanks (?) to Gavin & Gillian, who decided that what "The Wandering Hedgehog" needed was an ACTUAL wandering hedgehog. Stay tuned, and I'll see just how m...