Stage. Travel. Photos. Thoughts...
Afghanistan is often remembered as the “graveyard of empires”—a terrain that broke the ambitions of Alexander the Great, Victorian Britain, and the Soviet Union. Yet in The Finest Hotel in Kabul, BBC Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet charts the country’s turbulent modern saga not through battlefields, but through a single, extraordinary vantage point: the Inter-Continental Hotel.
This is the first book from [Ms Day](https://www.elizabethday.org/) that I have read. t did take me a while to get into it, but I decide that I'd hunker down and finish it.
Living on the Isle of Wight does have some advantages. Being a holiday destination it does have some lovely places to visit and to spend some time.
After more than 45 years in the entertainment industry—most of them spent as a lighting designer—you might assume I would be a regular at the PLASA Show, the anual entertainment technology show in London. In fact, that has not been the case.
As far as man made machinery goes, there is no doubt that the Airbus A380 is at the top of the list
I self-host most, if not all, of my digital life: email, websites, music, photos. As I say, most, if not all. I have a Google account, but there is not really much on it. That begs the question... Do I back up all this stuff? Well, the answer is yes, very much so.
Visitors to be charged a "Road Tax" to use Belgian roads.
The 200th Cowes Week ends today. It was a good week that we actually took part in.