Arthur SmithA collection of 11 posts

Travel

Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining wh...

Travel

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read – far better...

Travel

Travel books are by and large boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact f...

Romantic

The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers and I've often found myself...

Positive

I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn...

Funny

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes which do not dese...

Funny

The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of ...

Famous

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous because it lets you gau...

Experience

Reading the play at home however fulfilling can never be the vivacious experie...

Age

I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face.