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A lack of time as well as human nature means that we all know the immediate area surrounding our workplaces very well and beyond a few hundred meters less so. Once the working day is over and maybe after some well earned bar time, we go home.  What we tend not to do is explore […]

Every year we take a trip down to Dorset, escaping the busy life of London as it offers a chance to relax. One of my most enjoyable things to do is visit Lulworth cove & Durdle Door. Durdle Door is a stunning natural limestone arch located on the Jurassic Coast near Lulworth in Dorset, England. […]

This time last year, I was lucky enough to embark on one of the best experiences of my life. For the month of August 2023 I volunteered at a safari park/game reserve near Port Elizabeth in South Africa. 11 other volunteers from all around the world and myself, stayed in the very heart of the […]

One of the biggest changes I’ve made in my personal fitness and in preparing for events has been narrowing the gap between my training intention, and my final execution. In short, this means that on your easy training days, go easy, and on your hard training days, go hard. The smaller the difference between your […]

I have recently begun one of the most incredible journeys of my life in becoming a father for the first time. In the months building up to the grand arrival, our world was full of classes, a constant stream of deliveries and preparing the home for our child. And I thought that was tiring. In […]

Last weekend I was fortunate enough to have been invited over to London for our Company’s Summer BBQ and since we had nothing planned for the Friday evening my wife suggested we try go down to Wimbledon and hope that we would be lucky to find tickets for the afternoon sessions, given it was raining […]

By the look it, Taylor Swift’s Eras tour manages something rather unique. Aside from generating the singer and her entourage countless Dollars in revenue, it also seems to manage to almost entirely take over entire cities when it arrives. Now, I’m no ‘Swiftie’, to be honest the thought of even googling whether you spell that […]

Benalmádena is a picturesque town on the Costa del Sol in southern Spain renowned for its impressive Mediterranean coastline and vibrant atmosphere. With a flight time of under 3 hours to Malaga and then onward transfer time of approximately 20 minutes, it was the perfect destination to travel with my 18 month old daughter who […]

Although you can find windmills in many countries, in the Netherlands there are so many of them that many people around the globe (myself included) see them as typically an iconic symbol of Dutch culture. A few years ago on a train journey from Venlo to Amsterdam I was disappointed to only view wind turbines […]

Tucked away in a quiet residential street. I visited Sir John Soane museum this weekend, the eccentric architect of the Bank of England. A small ordinary house from the outside filled to the brim with treasure trove of antiques from all around the world. A well travelled man. The collection felt like the grander extensive […]

It was around June 2022 when one evening my wife said, “that’s it let’s sell our house and buy some nice apartment by the sea”. While I was obviously shocked at such a sudden and bold statement to which I admit I was quite reluctant to accept, I must admit she was quite right, and […]

Whenever I have been close to famous actors, royalty or rock stars in the past, I have not been one to ask for a photograph, but last July that changed when I was on the same plane with a very famous actor from London to Athens.  Having said that, I had not recognized the tall […]