Twenty years ago, I was staying with my best friend Mark in Golders Green and found myself chatting with his mother. She was in her seventies, but I politely asked if she'd been anywhere nice recently.
"Yes," she said, "I've just come back from watching the bears catching salmon in Alaska."
That'll teach me...!
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I went to Cambridge on Friday to have lunch with a good friend of mine. We had a great day in the sunshine, and I took a few pictures that you can see in my Facebook album here.
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I went to Royal Ascot on Friday and took a lot of pictures of beautiful people, but I do apologise if I didn't get round to you and your friends!
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I just spent two weeks in Greece preparing a Greek boy and his twin sisters for 10+ and 12+ entrance examinations at a school in England.
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Pool, beach or hammock? Hammock, beach or pool? Hmm…
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Beautiful girls are like polar bears: they’re hard to find, and you try to get as close as you possibly can before they turn their backs and walk away.
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When they built Hong Kong, they put the sun in the wrong place. It’s always either behind a building, hidden by a cloud or on the wrong side of the island to see a decent sunset.
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My best experience in Moscow could easily have been my worst.
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Before I went to Belarus, I was warned it would be like going back to the Soviet Union: brutalist architecture, statues of Karl Marx and a hankering after the Communist era.
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I make lists. I make lots of lists. Even when people tell me not to, I still make lists.
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When you tour India with a beautiful Dutch blonde named after a Norse fertility goddess, it’s bound to be an adventure…
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If they ever made it into a film, they’d cast Minnie Driver as Andreanne, Steven Spielberg as Denni, Matthew Modine as Stefan, Julie Benz as Hannah, Sophie Marceau as Alyona and Matthew McConaughey as Andrew.
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Once you start ticking off the things to do on your bucket list, it’s hard to stop, so – inspired by my trip to Kenya – I signed up to go to the Icehotel in January to see the northern lights.
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During the Second World War, an Italian named Felice Benuzzi decided to escape from a British POW camp in Nanyuki, Kenya.
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