GEOFF NICHOLSON: THE LONG LOST WALKER

Is there any more depressing way of being described than as “Geoff Nicholson, 63”?   (Well yes of course there is, Geoff Nicholson 64, Geoff...

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...

A long time ago in London in the very early 1990s, my girlfriend and I were waiting for a bus, in the Strand, at about 10.30 in the...

If you felt like going for a walk in Los Angeles last Saturday afternoon you would have been well advised not to.   The air quality wa...

A few days before the 4th of July 1932 a fifteen-year-old boy named Louis Thomas Harden was walking along beside the railroad tracks near...