Have just returned from a really great week in Austria, paying a visit to the excellent “Ars Electronica” museum in Linz.
My daughter’s passport arrived on the Saturday morning and, as it was half term week, and she features in my presentations, I managed to get hold of a ticket for her, too.
There was a practical [...]

As a nation, we are a lazy bunch: everyone else speaks OUR language. Many times, I have spent ages preparing “useful” phrases for my travels, only to find my hosts speaking more comprehensive English than what I does.
We are going to be left behind and struggling, however, unless our children can keep up with the [...]

I am writing this sat in Brunei on the island of Borneo in South East Asia. Yesterday, Dubai, tomorrow Malaysia! Meanwhile, through all this travelling, the world has been in my pocket. “Blackberry (or, as they are known to fellow junkies:Crackberries!) and the world mails with you”.