Murder in Maspalomas

A special early posting to alert you all of my new near-fiction high-concept novel EXPIRY DATE. Scheduled for release on Tuesday 1st September 2026, there will be reduced price pre-release copies available. Keep in touch and thanks for reading. PS - dedicated website is expirydates.wordpress.com

Some observations of life for ordinary Chinese women in 2026

Left Beijing by high-speed train to Xi’an to see the Terracotta Warriers on a tour organised by Imagine Cruises. One week on the Chinese mainland before cruising out of Hong Kong

In March 2026 we took a tour of China and visited many places over the week. Today you will find details and pictures of the famous Summer Palace and the Great Wall of China. Tomorrow the Terracotta Warrier's await

China 2026 visit - today Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City and Temple of Heaven.

My story on a March 2026 visit to China and its cities of Beijing and Xi'an with a high-speed train journey and guided tour the part of the Great Wall, Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, and the Terracotta Warriors. First part the journey from Ireland.

Tour Egypt and visit the ancient sites by balloon. Twenty Irish take the opportunity to see the Valley of the Kings from above.

Day 9 of a tour of Egyptian sites, today we visit Luxor Temple, the Avenue that links it to Karnak Temple and back to dinner on our Nile riverboat - and i's my birthday!

Day 8 of a tour by forty Irish people of Egypt's ancient sites. Today we travel in a traditional boat on the river Nile.

Travel Department November 2025 tour of Egypt. Day 7 and we are in Aswan visiting Abu Simbil and catching the night show in the Temple of Philae

Day 6 of the Travel Department 13 day tour of ancient Egypt completed in November 2025. Visiting Philae Temple and the High Dam of Aswan, Egypt

Tour of Egypt and today we visit Temple of Edfu and the Temple of Kom Ombo then sailing on to Aswan. Edfu is the most complete temple in Egypt

A visit to Luxor and the Valley of the Kings, Egypt. Pictures from less than a month ago.

Tour of Egypt day 2 - the museums of Cairo. The GEM museum was not open to the public but these two were fantastic to visit. Enjoy some stunning images of the artifacts

Visiting Egypt by flying from Dublin Ireland. Actual experience, 6 hour flight, Cairo by night

Interested in visiting Egypt? I've just come back from a tour of the main ancient sites and museums in the country and I'm telling you how it was.

A visit to Egypt and her ancient past. Join me as I start today a series of articles on what it was like to visit Egypt on a 13 day guided tour from Ireland .