Part 4/5 Borneo The next few days were, for me, among the most important of the trip. Twice previously, in…

Part 3 Borneo Telupid: Alcohol is not the only sin After our time on Mt Kinabalu, we drove south-east through…

Part 2 Borneo: The early part of the Festival of Ian continues in the mountains of Northern Borneo Feb 20…

Part 1 of my trip to Sabah in March 2026, and the start of the “Festival of Ian” In case…

National Day in UAE is a big deal, warranting two days of public holiday. Sometimes, if the timing is right,…

I have just finished writing this blog and it’s now end of Jan 2026, some 5 months after my short…

The last time I went to the International Conference on Computer Vision was a decade ago. Dec 2015, in Santiago,…

Family holidays and birding are like oil and water, not mixing well. Nevertheless, like old Italian nonnas working out that…

There’s no cock like snowcock A decade ago, Oxon-birding friend Tom Bedford made a solo trip to the Caucasus Mountains…