Dallas Diaries: Observations of America
Our Wrestlemania 32 adventure was was my first trip to the United States of America. Despite growing up watching American films and TV (The Kids From Fame played a major part in my childhood!) and hav... Read More
Our Wrestlemania 32 Adventure: Dallas Diaries
I’ve been a bit of a fan of WWE (WWF as it was) for about 25 years. When I first left home the pub I drank in in Hounslow was an early adopter of SKY TV and my boyfriend and I used to watch W... Read More
Desperation and resignation in the Calais Jungle (trip 11)
Having only visited the Calais Jungle on Sunday I wasn’t expecting to go back for a few weeks – but seeing the destruction of the camp begin on Monday, and the violence used by the polic... Read More
The beginning of the end for the Calais Jungle? (Trip 10)
Back to France we went yesterday, this my 10th trip to the Calais Jungle, the refugee camp that’s home to people from war-torn countries such as Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, and dictatorships l... Read More
A sad farewell, Jungle-style (my 9th trip to the Calais Refugee Camp)
If you’re a regular reader of this blog you’ll know that, following my 8th trip to The Jungle, the refugee camp near Calais in northern France, I was debating whether my trips there would ... Read More
Celebrating an early Christmas in the Calais camp (My eighth trip to the “Jungle”)
Apologies for the tardiness of this blog post. I made my eighth trip to the refugee camp at Calais two days before Christmas, accompanied by my kids, Katie and Dan. We'd originally planned to go o... Read More
Life and love in the Calais Jungle: my seventh trip
Yesterday I made my seventh trip to the Calais refugee camp known as “The Jungle”. Last time we had a pretty horrendous time – conditions were atrocious, people were desperate, distr... Read More
Tears turned to anger … My sixth visit to the Calais Jungle
Yesterday I made my sixth visit to the refugee camp known as “The Jungle” in Calais. Usually I write about the people I've met or the stories I've heard: tales of horrors overcome,... Read More