I arrived in Marrakech in late July 2016 too tired to deal with humanity. I’d slept for about one hour and fifteen minutes overnight and...

How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup, published in 1975, is so much more than just a novella on an underdog team winning.

In an age of arrogant professionalism and overpriced football matches, visiting Racing Club Warwick show what football should be about.

It was well timed, but I finished reading a book about moving to Denmark in pursuit of happiness shortly after the Brexit vote came in....

Warm-up rides completed, overnight accommodation in Folkestone booked and a smooth journey to southeast Kent completed, things were...

It’d been a while since I’d really taken much interest in football – at least enough interest to start watching matches at the grounds...

The professionals make falling off their bikes look so easy. The reality is hours of pain, blood and tears in Accident and Emergency,...

After watching a couple of films, Chocolat (1988) and White Material (2009), directed by Claire Denis, a French director who spent part...

The temperature has continued its descent to unknown depths overnight and with it has brought the arrival of Jas from England. It is...

The excitement of being away from home is always too much for some students. Despite all the warnings from Julian and myself about not...

There is no mistaking the distinct feel that this a European city as you brace yourself against the exfoliating coldness of the wintry...

The day has started early and my eyes are letting me know this. Even so, waking up at around 4.30am in order to catch the X26 bus to...

I stumbled across Nuruddin Farah’s novels when searching for something written by a Somali author. Perhaps due to the conflict that has...

It is sometimes difficult for someone who was only seven years old at the time of Nelson Mandela’s release from Robben Island to...

Whenever I have written about time I’ve spent in East Africa, I often talk about the fact that geography plays such a big role in how...