For a man who obsesses over his music and iTunes collection, I can be extremely tardy sometimes in catching on to the latest song of the moment. Heading up my ‘My 2008′ playlist (songs I’ve discovered and will associate with this year) so far are the Raconteurs “Steady as she goes” (a hit in May [...]
A week ago, I took an ultra-quick trip back home to England – literally three days in and out. Why? Was the main question that people asked me when they heard I was there for such a short time – and here is the answer : To do something completely crazy. I popped all the [...]
Location: Epsom High St. Starbucks. 11am. The busker is re-positioning his bag on the ground, containing mainly copper coins, but a few silver ones too. I can’t remember the first time that I felt such an allure to street musicians (the last time I used the world ‘busker’ in Charleston, I got a blank look [...]
I started my blog as a continuation of the daily write-up that I did when I got 500 people to give me 50p so that I could buy an iPod.
There's a lot of tube related stuff on this site due to me being a former World Record Holder for travelling around the entire network (275 stations) in the fastest time possible back in May 2004.
After living in London for the first 33 years of my life and working for the BBC News website I moved to Charleston, South Carolina in the USA in May 2006 for three and a half years before moving back to England and back to work for the BBC in November 2009.
So for ten weeks in June, July and August 2009, I drove 20,000 miles around the the lower 48 contiguous states of the USA visiting towns and places that shared the same name as places on The London Tube Map.
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