Captain JP's log

INT: Top Yacht studio, usual three presenters, studio audience, various boats hanging behind etc Clarkson: More news - an update on the Amer...

Top Yacht logo & post advert theme INT: Top Yacht studio, usual three presenters, studio audience, various boats hanging behind etc Clar...

Top Yacht logo & post advert theme INT: Top Yacht studio, usual three presenters, studio audience, various boats hanging behind etc Clar...

In yesterday's post on the less than romantic voyage of Alan and Cleo, Adam, who appropriately blogged on the start of this year's A...

Alan sat at the navigation table, wondering what he should do. Absent mindedly he twirled a winch handle round and round like a football rat...

Ah, the romance of sailing! Anchoring in some isolated coral atoll where there are no lights apart from the fireflies ashore, chink of champ...

Our ex supreme leader, Tony Blair, had this way of giving an apology that was nothing of the sort. Being an ex-lawyer it would sometimes tak...

I followed the icon and attending monks from the Georgian Orthodox church down towards the river. First they were joined by another processi...

On the last day in Tbilisi I was going to head up the funicular railway to the Mtatsminda Park to get the view over the city, but on arrival...

After hearing that the cross of St Nino made from grapevine and bound by her own hair was to be found at the Tbilisi Sioni Cathedral, I trie...

As a leading blog this writer is often approached by those with a story that needs a wider audience. All too often alas this involves the s...

my2fish asked how I was able to find all these places, which is a good question. I've done a bit of travelling on business and the key ...

After the spiritual highs of two days of monasteries and churches it was time for a bit of more worldly excitements, in this case shopping a...

One of the strange things about travelling in Georgia was seeing flags that were almost but not quite the same as England, namely white with...

After venturing into the snow and ice of the high mountains the next day went into the semi-desert wilderness, this time to see the monaster...

The Georgian Military Highway was spectacular, the Ananuri fortress and church stunningly beautiful, however the Tsminda Sameba Church, well...

As mentioned in the previous blog entry, the Georgian Military Highway was an ancient trading route, and control of which could bring great ...

One of the bits of advice my uncle gave me if I was to visit Georgia was to travel the Georgian Military Highway. The name made me think it ...

Just got back to a London that is currently suffering storm force winds and battering rain. The landing at Heathrow was decidedly wobbly and...

Just up river from Tbilisi is the spiritual heart of Georgia, the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in the old town of Mtskheta. This was one of the ...