GEOFF NICHOLSON: THE LONG LOST WALKER

  When I lived in California, as I did until comparatively recently, people often said to  me, ‘Oh but you’re English, don’t you miss the se...

  So I went walking in Death Valley last month.   It’s something I do every two or three years, and of course I see the ironies of com...

Life’s like that: A couple of posts back I was writing about the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and now, by serendipity, I discover there’s such a th...

Pico Iyer says you should always take a book with you when you travel, but it should not be about the place you’re traveling...

I don’t want to come across as some kind of Charles Manson obsessive, but if you’re of a certain age, if you live in Los Angeles, and if yo...