Telupid: Alcohol is not the only sin After our time on Mt Kinabalu, we drove south-east through the mountains, calling…
Unfinished business on Mt Kinabalu
The early part of the Festival of Ian continues in the mountains of Northern Borneo Feb 20 After two mornings…
A Preposterous Pheasant
Part 1 of my trip to Sabah in March 2026, and the start of the “Festival of Ian” In case…
Family listing in Ghana
National Day in UAE is a big deal, warranting two days of public holiday. Sometimes, if the timing is right,…
Rajasthan: the worst dip
I have just finished writing this blog and it’s now end of Jan 2026, some 5 months after my short…
Hawaii
The last time I went to the International Conference on Computer Vision was a decade ago. Dec 2015, in Santiago,…
Fiji: Birding and Diving
Family holidays and birding are like oil and water, not mixing well. Nevertheless, like old Italian nonnas working out that…
Georgia On My Mind
There’s no cock like snowcock A decade ago, Oxon-birding friend Tom Bedford made a solo trip to the Caucasus Mountains…
Q8
Kuwait. Odd place for a birding trip, right!? But a weekend away from Abu Dhabi in the small country, most…
Post-cruise Durban
I left you, dear reader, on the docks at Durban where the MSC Musica had just pulled up following a…