In October 2025, it’ll be two years since I last flew anywhere. For someone who has travelled a fair amount over the years, and I mean to 50 countries across five continents, this is something of a big deal for me. It all started in January 2024, when we began planning our summer holiday. WeContinue reading “The year I ditched planes for trains”
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48 hours in Rio (and first-hand experience of a Brazilian A&E department)
In early 2005 I was living in Colombia and working as a freelance journalist for a trade magazine in London, reporting on the Latin American pharmaceutical markets. That February I flew to Brazil for a couple of weeks to interview the CEOs of various pharma companies and NGOs. I have a whole branch of myContinue reading “48 hours in Rio (and first-hand experience of a Brazilian A&E department)”
My month teaching English in the Pearl by the Sea (Odessa, Ukraine), 1996
Ukraine is a country that is on everyone’s lips these days, unfortunately for the wrong reasons. As a student, I spent a month in the Black Sea port of Odesa (then spelled Odessa) in the summer of 1996 and wrote an article about my experience when I got home. It was never published but, 29Continue reading “My month teaching English in the Pearl by the Sea (Odessa, Ukraine), 1996”
A day-trip to Paris with my 88-year-old Mum
When I was 12, my school organised a day trip to France for my year group – ostensibly to practise our French. All I remember of the day, aside from spending most of it on a coach, was buying a baguette in a hypermarché somewhere near Calais. And it rained. A lot. So, when myContinue reading “A day-trip to Paris with my 88-year-old Mum”
Judith Zerdin 