I visited Hong Kong many times from 1974 onwards. It was the most exciting place I had ever visited. I loved the food in the restaurants and the street market in Temple street. Temple street included many restaurants with the live food on display outside, tanks of every type of fish, lobster and eel…
In the rain,
outside my cabin
I listen to the sound of the guitar.
Loud, it reminds me of an old friend now passed…
Spirituality is a broad concept with room for many perspectives. In general, it includes a sense of connection to something bigger than ourselves…
Wellbeing is not just the absence of disease or illness. It is a complex combination of a person’s physical, mental, emotional…
Dalai Lama on the Meaning of Life (actual words told to me during my first audience with him in 1992):
Happiness for oneself and others is the main purpose of human life but that our normal day-to-day life is about hope…
John Hurt the actor said this at the end of the film “Jackie” which told the story of those few terrible weeks that Jackie Onassis experienced after her husband President John Kennedy was assassinated…
I visited Khatyn memorial on my visit to Belarus in 2013. It had been a village of 26 houses and 156 inhabitants 50 km away from Minsk. On 22 March 1943, almost the entire population of the village was massacred by the Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118…
My mother was 65 years old and my son Xavier 12 when we decided to go to the Philippines for an adventure holiday. I had been there on business years before but this time we wanted to travel into the north of the country to see the 2000 year-old rice terraces at Banaue…
I have visited Hidcote many times over the years.The garden is divided into a series of ‘outdoor rooms’, each with its own character.Each garden room provides a new view and range of plants in which to sit and enjoy…
Bressingham Gardens date back to the 1950’s when Alan Bloom converted his 150 acres of land into the largest perennial nursery in Europe. His five acre Dell Garden introduced the idea of planting oval or island…