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Avoid Channel Ports’ BREXIT benefit chaos
Heading to the continent at peak times is set to become even more onerous as Third Country checks intensify in line with Britain’s half-baked BREXIT deal.
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Patreon – make words pay.
As some of you may be aware, I recently launched a Patreon channel in order to host more challenging exclusive editorial.
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Lumo – alternative east coast rail
Lumo’s bright blue electric trains were first seen on the East Coast Mainline in October 2021.
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Fire Engine for Ukraine
Firstly, very many thanks to all those who have already donated to my Ukraine Fire Engine fundraiser. Combining direct and JustGiving amounts, I’m near £6,000 (over £6,500 as of 11/4/23), not far from the target of £8,000. All being well, it looks like I’ll be setting off for Lviv in May. Ukraine is suffering an…
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Dispatches – Collected Travel Stories 2008 – 2012
Hardly an auspicious time to launch a travel book, but then again many of us are looking for some kind of diversion. A note of caution: this book won’t change your life – only you can do that, ‘gorgeous’ is not anywhere employed as an adjective, and if you’re obsessive about a ‘sense of place’…
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Timbuktu and Bust
Journalist, Eugene Costello and I are driving from the UK (North Shields…) to Bamako, Mali, a distance of over 4,100 miles, departing 26th December. Our planned route traverses Europe, taking a ferry from Spain into Morocco, then heads south, across the deserts of Western Sahara and Mauritania, into Senegal and finally crosses into Mali around…
The Irresponsible Traveller 