A postcard from Trinidad: Bake and Shark

A farewell line from the Caribbean, having written last time about cricket in Trinidad, and about taking to the boats ‘down de islands’.Read

Howard Nichols in Trinidad

A postcard from Trinidad: By road and by sea

They drive on the left in Trinidad. There are a few freeways but mostly the roads are narrow and the driving is sometimes, shall we say, a little hairy.Read

Queens Park Oval in Port of Spain

A Postcard from Trinidad: Get used to the music and you'll have a blast!

Even if you’re not into cricket, it’s well worth heading out to a big game at the Queen’s Park Oval in Port of Spain.Read

Howard Nichols

A Postcard from Howard: Trinidad & Tobago

Weybridge's answer to Michael Palin, our very own Howard Nichols, is off travelling again. He'll be sending us more postcards - this time from Trinidad and Tobago.Read

A Postcard from Canada: The last hurrah

Down to my last stamp, so here's a final Canadian postcard - a Tale of Two Cities, contrasting Summerland in B.C's Okanagan region with Vancouver, host city for the 2010 Winter Olympics, on the Pacific Northwest coast.Read

A Postcard from Canada: Theatre to warm the heart

This week Howard is charmed by an 80-year-old community theatre, discovers the plight of Vancouver's whales, and the aftermath of elections.Read

A Postcard from Canada: The festival of wine

We're now a few days into the Okanagan Fall Wine Festival here in British Columbia, the only wine festival in North America that takes place during the fall wine harvest.Read

A Postcard From Canada: Rising from the ashes

Five years ago this beautiful part of the Okanagan region of British Columbia, above Kelowna, was devastated by a forest fire, the worst in the province's history.Read

A Postcard from Canada: The Ogopogo and all that Jazz

Penticton is at the southern tip of the huge Lake Okanagan. Those who believe in the Loch Ness Monster would do well to come here and seek out Ogopogo. Read

Howard Nicholls

A Postcard From Canada: A sort of wonderland

Carterville sounds like a town from the old West: in fact it's 10 acres of valuable real estate in British Columbia, south of Vancouver and close to the US border.Read