Horizon Chasing
Thanks for dropping by. This is Sam Watson’s blog – sometimes writer for various magazines, traveller, writer, geographer, conservationist and itinerant scruff. Insta – samwatson4994 / X – SamWatson__ / Fb – Sam Watson
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Shepheard’s Hotel and cocktails
Shepheard’s Hotel was the “place to be” in pre-war and wartime Cairo. Definitely a place for the well-heeled and the influential, haunt of Lawrence, Churchill and Kitchener, it was also a place where the senior ranks of the LRDG and SAS went to stay – and to drink. Cognoscenti today may be aware that the…
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Rum Jars and the Long Range Desert Group
For almost half a millennium the alcoholic spirit Rum – specifically dark “navy” rum – has been associated across the English-speaking world with war and adventure. Since the English conquest of Jamaica in 1655, rum was part of daily rations issued to the British Royal Navy – that is, until “Black Tot Day” in 1970…
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Why couldn’t Mary and Joseph work remotely? There was no Zoom at the Inn….
Sorry. That was terrible. Hope everyone had a good Christmas and New Year – or as good a Festive Season (of whatever variety) as we can manage at the moment. Many apologies for being a terrible correspondent – the stats for this Webpage show that many kind folk are still reading it and putting up…
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Summer in the UK with COVID chaos
At the end of June I flew home to Yorkshire in northern England with no real picture of how life would be. COVID of course is embarrassingly prevalent in the UK and the government has successfully bungled and mismanaged the social circumstances for the British people so nobody is really sure how to approach the…
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Strange time for all…
A strange time for the world – “unprecedented” gets used a lot at the mo – and its true. At least two of my friends have this COVID 19 wretch, one in China and one in the UK, and the ructions it causes globally are evident – less so are the ones it will continue…
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“Classic Safaris” in Umm Al Qawain
My friend Mark Woodward is setting up Classic Safaris, a self drive safari company which uses Series 1, 2 and 3 Land Rovers to explore the northern deserts of the UAE. I’ve become informally involved as a safety car / desert mapper / beer tester and this last couple of weeks he’s been setting things…
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