From Bangkok to Siberia via the Marrakech Express – Book review
So what does a Welsh railwayman do when he reaches retirement age? Settle down on the sofa and take a well earned rest watching rugby on the television? Well not if you are William Bleasdale. His idea of perfect retirement is travelling the world’s railway networks and then writing up his exploits in books illustrated […]
Malacca’s Watery Past
Written by Justin Miller (A highly commended runner-up entry in the Travel and Water Writing Competition.) Zanzibar, Timbuktu, Calcutta, Malacca. For me and probably for many British people, those names carry an air of exotic mystery. They bring to mind boy’s own adventure stories from the days of empire, Kiplingesque fantasies of colourful locals and […]