The Travels of a Curious Old Man

And his equally curious companion, who looks younger

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Monday, 24 June 2013

Desert Journeys

Three Journeys Across Inhospitable Terrain Abadan to Shiraz, with an Unplanned Stop at Bandar Deylam 30th of July 2000 Iran On the ...

Wednesday, 29 May 2013

A Brief Encounter with Carnforth and a Train Trip to Grange-over-Sands

A Railway Station that Thinks it Won an Oscar and a Trip Across the Kent Estuary Carnforth Lancashire Lancaster ‘There’s not much e...

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About Me

Dandly: I have always travelled, but I didn’t start blogging about it until 2010, Back then I had just I retired and fondly imagined I was still middle aged. Being now over 70, I'm forced to admit that I am inexorably and ungraciously becoming an Old Man. I can still do (almost) everything I could in my youth; it just takes longer and requires more effort. I have always been curious and still enjoy travelling because that curiosity remains undimmed. I am curious about geography, languages, food, politics, religion, food, architecture, history, food (always a favourite!), wild life and the list goes on … Being a former teacher, I feel a need to share my discoveries, hence the blog. I may, perhaps, be curious in a different way, but that is for others to judge

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