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Travelling is fun but homecoming is better. Strict grammarians might quibble at this sentence but I can’t think of a shorter, more compelling way to describe my thoughts as our Boeing came to a halt on the tarmac and the staff opened the cabin doors to let in fresh tropical island paradise air after an [...]

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It has finally come to pass. Our Euro 2009 trip is well underway. Judy and I are currently in central France from where I have the distinct pleasure of writing these words on a borrowed laptop. After breakfast on a sheltered veranda overlooking an estimated million or so vines as far as the eye can [...]

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Nothing fascinates the human mind more than the prospect of travelling back in time. Except perhaps the chance of tip-toeing tentatively into the future.
I have no interest in the latter, I’m old enough and – I hope – wise enough to have grasped ‘whatever will be, will be.’ Or ‘Que Sera, Sera’ as Doris Day [...]

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Something we all do – but only with care – is to look back and wonder what would have happened if… (a) I hadn’t met Judy at that party in New York’s Greenwich Village and we haven’t been apart since, (b) I’d accepted the offer to start as a cub reporter for the Chicago Tribune [...]

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