Living on the sofas and spare beds of empty holiday homes and people’s flats in Europe as I now do, I get a fantastic opportunity to see and experience new locations and cultures. One such opportunity arose this week to stay on a friend’s sofa in Croydon. If you don’t know much about Croydon’s stigmas, […]

Quotes like: “Nothing puts a smile on someone’s face the way a pack of marauding Santa’s does” “No force on earth can stop one hundred Santas!” “Blow their minds and their bodies will follow — Santa Melmoth” make me want to go to the 2003 Santacon in New York. To that end, if anyone wants

“I was wandering around in my blanket on the way back to the tent last night. Most other people were in t-shirts.” “Yeah, there’s something wrong with your body temperature regulation. You were wearing a blanket while you were sitting in the sun yesterday. Sun that scorched my skin, and made all the tents into