W-wa Jeziorki

Left: A Trabant on ul. Fabryczna yesterday; note white-on-black numberplates and the Niewiadów N250 trailer behind the car. What struck me ...

I've written about the Most Poniatowskiego before (notably here ); unquestionably my favourite bridge in Warsaw. A damp winter's aft...

Think of Warsaw's Old Town, and you'll think of the Rynek Starego Miasta (Old Town Market), the Barbakan, the Plac Zamkowy facing th...

Their day had gone well; by late afternoon the nets were fuller of fish than either brother could remember, and a dozen well-shot ducks lay ...

Mid-April, and Easter would be soon be upon them once again; first the Catholic one, and then – unusually that year – only a week later, the...

Impatience, male vanity - call it what you will - I felt the need for a new winter coat. While my M-65 field coat is supremely comfortable ...

Joad and I drifted out of the Faber & Faber offices into Russell Square and found ourselves in another office nearby; but it was a quite...

As we do each year, we left London for our annual holiday in North Wales stopping off en route in the Derbyshire village of D_______, where ...