la vie en straw

While watching the Wallabies hammer the British Lions in the torrential rain of Sydney in the final test of the tour Down Under, my friend...

On the hottest day of the year so far, I phoned my brother in Finland. He showed me around his place in the forest with his phone-camera and...

A recent trip to Marseille did nothing to amend an abiding impression that dated back to 1978. In the back seat of my friend Philip’s whit...

I’m not best suited for travel. There are too many things that can go wrong: breakdowns, postponements, missed connections, deportations, ...