Weather: cloudy but fair. Sitting in a branch of Wetherspoons at Heathrow’s Terminal 4 eating a £5.99 ‘traditional breakfast’ – trying to relax, with a cup of Tetley’s tea. This will be my last taste of British culture for five weeks – quite literally. There is something reassuringly grim about British airports – the staffContinue reading “New York, Saturday 5 June 2004”
Category Archives: USA
Some travel writings
It’s about time that some of my travel writings made it to my blog, rather that sit in scrawled ballpoint in a little red Fidel Castro notebook. In the next few weeks I’m hoping to transcribe some of the entries, and maybe, in the style of thelondonpaper‘s City Boy, embellish them a little. I’ve alsoContinue reading “Some travel writings”
Wake up, America
My reaction to the Virginia shootings was entirely predictable, yet how can the US government be so slow to act after the regularly occurring tragedies of recent years there which now seem to be almost accepted as a way of life? The US government will no doubt make moves to increase the amount of securityContinue reading “Wake up, America”
Paul Prentice 