Destination
I could really do with a poo. “Good afternoon sir, and welcome to the hotel. Please, take a seat.” I’m ushered to the armchair next to the reception desk, and hand over my passport. This had better not take long. I’ve held it in on the bus for four hours. “Please sir, take a seat [...]
They sit in silence, as they did last night and probably the thirty nights before that. She has had the fake smile and feigned interest sapped out of her; she can now only pull off politely bored. As long as it doesn’t slip into open disdain, it’s all OK. It’s hard to tell if he’s [...]
As we inch down the muddy path towards the base of the waterfall, I ask Kent how long he has been doing these tours. “About two years now,” he replies. “This was my first job.” This comes as something of a surprise. We’ve only just met, and it seems wrong to ask him his age. [...]
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Usually, I am somewhat scorful of press releases. But next week, I am going to Palau, the hottest destination of 2012 as decided by me. Largely because I’ve paid to go there, and I’m damned if I’m not going to make something of it. So get excited. This is the year of going to Palau [...]
It wasn’t the most savoury of areas. The post office appeared to be situated next to some sort of junkie zoo – or at least a massively prolific drug rehabilitation drop-in centre. More importantly, however, the post office appeared to be closed. At least for another hour. Yet again, California had thwarted my attempts to [...]
I remember leaving the airport, a disparate group in the minivan, slowly being dropped off at hotels around the island. I remember, at the penultimate stop, deciding to jump out of the back seat to join the driver in the front. I had that second wind you get after touching down from a long flight, [...]
A night in a lonely Florida motel turns into something magical once the cast of Cocoon walks in… At the end of almost every line in Five For Fighting’s Superman, there is a high note. I know this because I can’t reach it. It would, perhaps, have been better to discover this before now. [...]
We turn the corner, wondering what awaits us. Actually, wondering is probably the wrong word. We’re silently hoping that what awaits us has something more to offer than what we’ve seen already. It’s a glass display board. With a comic strip in. Just like the other glass display boards with comic strips in that we’ve [...]
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