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When the pilot lands the plane and says in a jolly voice that the ground temperature is minus anything, it’s enough to send me back to my bed in thermals and with a steaming cup of ginger tea. Like now. I hate the cold. Worse than that, whoever does the early March web weather forecast has had a laugh and put a positive spin on Swedish thermometer readings – so I am not now prepared for Stockholm’s sub Arctic temperatures.
I am onstage in front of 65 strangers who think I’m a stand-up comedian. I’ve never done anything like this before. Why have I agreed…
I am lying on a wooden massage bed as two women rub my naked body with hot pouches of cooked rice, milk and medicinal herbs.…
As we stepped off the Dodekanisos Pride ferry onto the Greek island of Symi for our late August beach holiday, our thoughts were on sunbathing…