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Full moon by the sea

For centuries, Hoi An has been a well-loved jewel of Vietnam           Financial Times, 17 September 2005 Sometimes when you travel you have the greatest luck, and the timing of our arrival in Hoi An, a picturesque town about halfway between Saigon and Hanoi on the Vietnamese coast, was one

By | September 6th, 2005|Writing|0 Comments

Two wheels good

Bicycles are cheap, healthy and good for the environment. So why do so many motorists hate them? Financial Times, 20 November 2004 The bicycle is making a comeback. Every weekday morning nearly 200,000 people cycle to work in London, up 23 per cent on last year's figures and, according to Transport for London, still

By | November 6th, 2004|Writing|0 Comments

Scallops in the morning

After Enrica Rocca's Borough Market Day, shopping, cooking and eating will never be the same     Financial Times, 4 September 2004 "Don't eat too much before you come because by the end of the day, you will be stuffed." Enrica Rocca is making the final arrangements for her Borough Market Day, an inspired

By | September 6th, 2004|Writing|0 Comments

Wheel of fortune

The science of theme parks: forget end-of-the-pier distractions, the modern amusement ride is a hi-tech thrill laboratory    Hot Air, September 2001 Eddie Newquist knows a lot about theme parks. As president of film and production at BBH, a firm of park and exhibit designers based in San Antonio, Texas, it’s his job to be

By | September 6th, 2002|Writing|Comments Off on Wheel of fortune

The Russian ee! (and ow! and ouch! and arghh!) rooms

New Yorkers are finding Russian reinvigoration – with a brain-frying, muscle-twisting detox session on E 10th Street   High Life, September 2001 As soon as you push open the wooden door to the schvitz in New York’s Russian and Turkish Baths on E 10th Street, you know you are in no ordinary spa. A wall

By | September 6th, 2001|Writing|0 Comments

‘A pebble on the beach of history’

How Iranians see their part in Persia's 2,500-year story                Financial Times, 30 September 2000 On a quiet day, the mausoleum of Ayatollah Seyed Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini looks like an airport terminal where all the flights have been cancelled. People lie dozing on the industrial floor, prefabricated pillars

By | September 30th, 2000|Writing|0 Comments

Riddle of the sands

No sex. No drugs. No flesh. No alcohol. Why would anyone want to holiday in Iran?        Arena, September 2000   Mohammed is getting wistful. ‘You should have seen this place before the revolution,’ he says, as we sit in the coffee shop of a mid-range tourist hotel in Tehran. ‘There

By | September 6th, 2000|Writing|0 Comments

Death on the road

How life can change in an instant                         Arena, August 1999 At first, I thought a car had cut in front of us. Drivers were constantly switching lanes along the potholed dual carriageway that snaked through scrubby desert into downtown Amman. It was late

By | August 6th, 1999|Writing|0 Comments