Barcelona

As you may know, I’m a bit of a Formula One fan and one of the benefits of being a McLaren team member (apart from the free earplugs) is you get the chance to go on things like pit visits at Grands Prix. Last week was the final pre-season test for the 2010 Formula One

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Fairytale of New York

This year we spent Christmas in New York and, yeah, it was just like Shane and Kirsty sang:  there were cars big as bars and the day we left the wind really did go right through you (a maximum of 0° and gusts up to 64 km/h), but apart from one day of constant rain

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Monaco

Tomorrow the British Grand Prix kicks off at Silverstone but last month we went to the most glamorous Grand Prix of them all; Monaco. We went with Jonathan and Louise who had managed to arrange for us to use a friend’s flat in Monaco-Ville for the week. Also known as La Rocher or ‘The Rock’,

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Raffles Hotel

I’m waiting for my flight to Australia after spending the last couple of days in Singapore.  First impressions of Singapore are good.  I like it.  The city is nice and the people are friendly.  It rains a lot here.  In fact it has rained every day since we arrived.  And not the London drizzly kind

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Berlin

Mum and Dad are over here at the moment and we wanted to go abroad for a few days. So where did we decide to go, you know, it being winter and all? Spain? Morocco? No. We went to Germany. Turns out Berlin is rather fracking cold in January. But that didn’t really matter because

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el niño de las pinturas

A couple of weeks ago, on Miguel’s recommendation, we visited Granada. Granada was the last Moorish kingdom to hold out against the Christian monarchs (los Reyes Católicos) and this Moorish heritage permeates the city. Nowhere is it more apparent than in the Alhambra, a massive fortress built on a hill above the city. We stayed

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Greece

2008 seems to be the Year of Weddings. There was Jonathan and Louise’s in July, Paul and Bonnie’s in August, Claire and Ed’s in October, Chloe and Kieran’s is in November and last month was Mark and Penny’s. That’s five weddings in as many months. Kathryn likes this because it means she has to buy

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662 photos

I’ve been rinsing my internet connection uploading loads of pictures to the gallery. Back in June we had our yearly long weekend in the Lakes. Usually we go for a few moderately easy walks around the Fells but this year we decided to walk up a mountain. With its summit at 3,054 feet, Skiddaw is

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