Category Archives: Travel

Last Night at the Poms

Posted on September 12, 2021 by davidsprott

I’m with Simon Rattle who said in a recent interview with the Radio Times that he avoided conducting the Last Night because of its “jingoistic elements”. However last night’s performance showed that a large section of the audience don’t like nationalistic behaviour spilling over into politics! Continue reading →

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Magical Mystery Tour

Posted on August 20, 2021 by davidsprott

So far, young people have mostly addressed the climate emergency as a protest group. No problem with that. But moving forward the younger generation needs to take charge, to ensure the world takes the right decisions and gets out of the mess we baby boomers have created. Continue reading →

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Saving Eden: Natural Ecosystems v Unrestrained Capitalism

Posted on July 3, 2021 by davidsprott

This story is an object lesson in how not to manage sustainability. Of course, we know that back in the 1950s concern for the environment or indeed individuals’ rights was not on anyone’s agenda. But today things should be different. Continue reading →

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A Walk on the Wild Side

Posted on June 20, 2021 by davidsprott

Last week Marie and I travelled out of county for the first time since 2019! Yes, travel restrictions are lifting and we booked an AirBNB in Birr, Co. Offaly. You might well ask why Offaly? Surely that’s pretty boring compared … Continue reading →

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Out of Africa – Malawi

Posted on April 16, 2021 by davidsprott

Disclosure: I love Africa and have a long history of involvement there. I first travelled to South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya on business as early as 1979, lived in Johannesburg for five years in the 1980s and continued to travel occasionally for business and family purposes until a few years ago. So I watch African matters with interest, and am not at all surprised that Africa continues to lag the rest of the world in all matters, particularly Covid19. Continue reading →

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Are We Using Technology to Get us out out of the Covid19 Mess?

Posted on January 27, 2021 by davidsprott

Here in Ireland we are recovering from Lockdown 3, case load is reducing but the hospitals and entire health service is incredibly overloaded. There is real concern that new variants may be more serious, transmissible etc, and not covered by … Continue reading →

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The Strange Tale of the Jacket and the Car Keys

Posted on October 16, 2020 by davidsprott

This week Marie and I managed to fit in a road trip to West Cork just before the seemingly inevitable second Covid19 lockdown. On Wednesday we met up with our friend Ann in Quills car park and drove in convoy … Continue reading →

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Posted on February 20, 2019 by davidsprott

It’s always a pleasure to return to Berlin to look after the grandchildren. Even if they don’t really need any “looking after” it’s great to spend (so called) quality time with them, as well as continuing our exploration of this … Continue reading →

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On the Border

Posted on August 31, 2018 by davidsprott

You can drive to one of the most historically significant memorials in Europe in under an hour from where we are staying in Eastern Austria. And yet most of us will be unfamiliar with the name – Sopron, a small … Continue reading →

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Return to the Wienerwalt

Posted on August 18, 2018 by davidsprott

The drive from Lake Simssee to the Vienna Woods is quite short, about four hours. We make a good stop at a Landzeit service area for lunch. The quality is superb, and we reflect on the sorry state of particularly … Continue reading →

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