Serener Skies

So this year's choice of holiday destination was Scotland, and, more specifically, the Isle of Skye. There were numerous reasons for this choice and some of them were practical. With the ongoing shenanigans in the Middle East, where, rather bizarrely, belligerent powers seem to declare ceasefires and carry on shooting and bombing people regardless, oil prices are up and down like the Assyrian Empire (to borrow an old Monty Python line) making holidays abroad less than economi

I first started this blog back in the summer of 2019 with little thought except that it was to be, broadly, a nostalgic blog about the past, whether it be a very personal aspect of the past like the three Peanuts strips that formed the theme of the first post, or the history of popular train travel that was covered in a subsequent one. Think perhaps something along the lines of Michael Bywater's hilarious, if now perhaps somewhat dated, Lost Worlds: What Have We Lost And Wher