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Cutting off the Sharp tongue (how to handle rude customers)

3 Feb 2017 | Archive

pick the bull up by the horns (or cow in this case) and ask her why she takes this tone with you. She might actually not see herself as being rude and once she knows how she behaves, ought to respond positively.

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Blue January, Au Revoir

26 Jan 2017 | Archive

Travel Coach 25 January 2017 (reprised and updated from my article in Travel Bulletin Sept 2007) Dear Travel Coach My sales are down and friends say that my January Blues are sure to further jinx my sales potential. How can I calm down and regain control? S –...

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TRAVEL COACH. TIME ISSUES

17 Jan 2017 | Archive

We are a company of travel experts – If we don’t know about good time keeping – nobody does.

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‘Ouvre le chien’: Bowie / Blackstar, Mercury and Crimson Moon (part 3 of 3)

11 Jan 2017 | Archive

He had depth that went beyond the visuals and the melodies. The music was varied and the lyrics seemed deep and meaningful. The PR machine was straight into action in letting us know he borrowed writing techniques from the likes of William Burroughs and this soon added to Bowie’s mystique and credentials as an artist and not a ‘mere’ pop star.

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The Travel Coach (rides again)

4 Jan 2017 | Archive

Dear Travel Coach, I ruined my New Year’s weekend by reading two newspapers. This is what they said The Daily Telegraph “Just one in seven Britons now uses a travel agent”. The Times quoted a similar view “Internet competition could push hundreds of high street travel...

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Travel Coach Re-boot Coming Soon…

24 Dec 2016 | Archive

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Walls of Malaga

13 Dec 2016 | Archive

As we tumbled out of the taxi my foot hovered over a shallow puddle. Although the Malaga December evening bore no remnants of neither Autumn nor Summer it still held out a hint of a tropical hand: mild, still air, a dry Guadalmedina river bed  and post-flood...

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Dancing on the Jetty

18 Oct 2016 | Archive

I was on a mission of silence. Part of a project to unearth a level of inner peace – something that has always eluded me.

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First Stand of The Tourister

2 Oct 2016 | Archive

 Maiden Flight of a Boy Alone  As my father’s Super8 cine camera panned upwards from the family to my newly airborne plane they waved at me soaring skywards from Heathrow, bound for Venice to visit my grandparents. My father, a typical 1960’s dad, filmed every moment...

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