Haneda has international flights too these days and is much more convenient than Narita (just half an hour on the monorail gets you into Tokyo proper). I was in Japan last month -- the overtourism is… (View Post)

85, and still presenting weekly episodes of In Our Time... (View Post)

When I was a kid you had a number, not a card (I can still remember our family's coop number 40 years on), and you had to go and collect your "dividend" from the main coop in town once a ye… (View Post)

Well, they got both Castle and Chesterton (the latter by only 10 votes) to just gain control of Cambridgeshire. (View Post)

I have done Halifax to Vancouver by train -- sleeper train to Quebec City, then day trains to Toronto, and then the Canadian to Vancouver, with a stopoff in Jasper along the way. I really enjoyed it:… (View Post)