Conservative Tendency

I haven't been writing much lately but it is important to me to keep some sort of diary going which is accessible to friends, relations ...

Here is a link to my latest Substack piece: https://markenglish.substack.com/p/towpath-reflections If this Substack site (called Parsing the...

Back in December, when I was in Sofia, I noticed a dark, more-or-less rectangular shape in my field of vision when I opened my right eye aft...

My first introduction to Malta was via my childhood stamp collection and some richly coloured, colonial-era stamps. Subsequently, as a stude...

My lack of knowledge of the Bulgarian language has made it difficult for me to get beyond a superficial understanding of the country but the...

I spent the latter part of October and most of November in Athens. The weather was glorious. And the rocky, dry, austere landscapes of Greec...

Having given up the apartment in central Melbourne which I had leased for more than a decade, I have been staying for the most part in hotel...