Night trains have long been a source of fascination. Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used sleeper trains to tell tales of romance, intrigue and decadence against a rolling background of dramatic landscapes. The reality could be just as thrilling as the fiction: early British travellers on the Orient Express were advised to […]
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Dear World, How Are You?
How do you begin to write a letter to every country in the world? What kind of replies would you get? And how do you undertake such a challenge when you are only five years old?
One man and his bike
(Photo credit: from One Man and His Bike by Mike Carter, published by Ebury Press. Used by permission of The Random House Group Ltd. Image above shows a man standing with a bike in front of two signs – one sign points to Office daily grind and the other points to Adventure) What would happen […]