Chambers at Large

I hadn’t gone to the Isle of Man for the weather and it is thanks to sunny spells and downpours that trees thrive and the fields are...

Learning there were castles in the towns of Peel and Castletown, I  braved the wind and the rain when setting out to the east of the Isle...

Deciding where to go on holiday in the height of summer (June/July) needs careful thought.  I didn’t want to go somewhere too hot, nor...

I set myself a mission in 2025 – to see tigers in the wild and my first two excursions were in Ranthambore National Park.  It was a misty...

As a child I visited almost all of the sights in England’s capital city: The Tower of London, Tower Bridge, St Paul’s Cathedral,...

Following my night flight to India’s capital, which I documented in a previous blog, I was in need of sustenance and recuperation before...

Thanks to Queen Victoria’s son Jaipur is known as the Pink City.  The Prince of Wales, (later King Edward VII) visited in 1876 and was...

Once in a while when travelling I come upon places that take my breath away.  When touring north India I came across two such places....

Shimla, in the foothills of the Himalayas, is the capital city of the province of Himachal Pradesh in northern India. It is a colourful...

I was told on the day we were to leave for Shimla that the train would be leaving at 8am, thus I set an early morning phone call for 5am...

I was on a night flight to Delhi from London and having secured an aisle seat I was quick to order a couple of glasses of red wine,...

My fellow travellers and I arrived in Amritsar late afternoon and, having booked into our hotel, our first port of call was the Golden...

As a teenager I read voraciously many a novel set in India, thus the Taj Mahal was one of the top places I wanted to see when I compiled...

One of the most beautiful islands I’ve ever visited is Madeira and being only four hours on a plane from Ireland it’s my go to spot for...

The port of Paracas on the shores of the Pacific Ocean was my penultimate stop in Peru and I wish I’d had a couple more days there to...

I visited Peru earlier in the year, but there were many reasons I wanted to return and one of them was to see the mysterious Nazca Lines,...

As I’ve stated in a previous blog it was only when Paddington The Movie  came out in 2014 that the people of Peru realised my favourite...

Peru has to be one of the most diverse countries I’ve ever visited and I must say on several levels made me realise I’m living in...

I’ve been a fan of Paddington since I read the books as a child, not too long after the first was published in 1958.  It came as a bit of...

The summer in Ireland this year has been horrendous.  Rain almost every day.  A cheap all-inclusive trip to the sun was called for and I...