The Psychology of Travel

My new travel book on Nepal

Here’s the press release for my new travel book: Escape the virus (at least for a few hours) with Rupert Wolfe Murray’s new travel book: Himalayan Bus Plunge — And other stories from Nepal. In his introduction to Wolfe Murray’s...
1917: I was there

1917: I was there

I’m utterly engrossed in the film 1917, but I also need a pee. I wait for a quiet moment and dash across the cinema. Where am I? Emotionally I’m in the trenches. But I can see the low lights and …

Hitching is eco-friendly and fascinating

My Romanian sister in law was rather horrified to hear that I wanted to take her 12-year old daughter hitching. But she’s open-minded enough to realise that the chances of robbery, rape or abduction — or any of the horrors …

I use Time Travel to Cut my Emissions

When I was in Romania last month I discovered time travel. I know this sounds ridiculous — isn’t time travel a futuristic, high-tech impossibility used by the likes of Doctor Who and the crazy professor in Back to the Future?…

Near Miss in Romania

I was cycling down the hill so fast I thought I might fly, like those kids in ET – Steven Spielberg’s classic film – when the alien enables the kids to fly their bikes through the night sky. It’s incredible …