Travel writing
I don't really do this anymore but you might find the following samples of my travel writing interesting. All photos by moi (except the one of moi, obviously).
Disneyland Paris
I wasn’t prepared at all. I mean, I knew there would be queues. But what I didn’t appreciate was the cumulative effect of queues that were so long, so unyielding, and so numerous. It is dispiriting to discover within minutes of arriving at Disneyland Paris that for the next two days you will definitely, beyond question, spend the overwhelming majority of your time in a grinding series of lines punctuated by the occasional, fleeting ride.
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Cheeting death
Before walking unarmed and unprotected into a cheetah enclosure and encountering its unrestrained, untranquilised contents, it’s worth considering what you’re up against. As the fastest land animal, a cheetah can sprint at up to 120 kmh. Usain Bolt meanwhile can only manage 45 kmh. A cheetah can reach its top speed in just over three seconds, which is roughly how long it takes me to get off the sofa.
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Obscure London museums
Few cities in the world do museums in quite the way London does. Its most famous examples – The British Museum, the Natural History Museum and so on – are among the city’s major tourist attractions. But it is possible to enjoy a different flavour of London by visiting its legion minor museums, which seem to exist solely as a means of expressing how peculiar Britons and their interests can be.
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Malta
You have to look hard to find Malta on a map. A speck in the centre of the Mediterranean, it's dwarfed by pretty much everything around it: Sicily and Sardinia just to the north, Africa hulking to the south. But throughout its long Technicolor history, plenty of people have made the effort.
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