When you go for a drive into the country, you expect to see sheep (this is New Zealand), cows, cattle and horses; and birds - a few hawks...

I've just realised, from the information on the camera, that I was one second short of taking this photo at 11:11:11am. Bummer! I wonder...

Tonight's TV news report about the parlous state of the Italian economy included a shot of this sign, outside the European Central Bank ...

Another of my Downton Abbey stories is out today in the Christmas issue of Next magazine; and in the travel section is a story by another w...

Tomorrow is the big day at the races in Christchurch - or one of them, at least: Cup Day at the Addington trots, and a welcome chance to d...

I'm back in Dubai's shiny new airport, all marble and stainless steel and reflective surfaces over vast areas of space. There's ...

It's been a very cosmopolitan sort of day, literally: Dubai is that sort of place. Only 20% of the population is made up of local Emirat...