Author: Mike Gerrard
They say in New Orleans it’s Mardi Gras all year round, and that’s definitely true in Mardi Gras World. This is where they make the giant sculptures that go on …
One man, George Barber, put together the world’s largest motorcycle museum, and it’s a spectacular place. He made his money from milk and indulged a passion for speed by …
The water snake swam past our boat and someone asked, ‘Are they poisonous?’ ‘No,’ said our Captain, Bishop Keller, ‘You can eat ’em.’ It took a moment for people …
‘You can’t believe how hard it is to get orange shagpile carpet,’ Judy Hood tells us. I’m in Muscle Shoals with a bunch of European music journalists, and we’re …
Thirsty work, cycling. Fortunately in Breckenridge in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, they have the answer. You bike to a brewery. Several of them in fact, and to the Breckenridge Distillery, …
We passed Hog Heaven on Highway 285, just along from the Happy Camper Cannabis Company. I guess that really is high on the hog. Yes, we’re in Colorado, though …
On the morning of Sunday, September 15, 1963, the girls were in the basement of their church, putting on their choir robes and getting ready for the service, no …
Sometimes when you’re visiting a place you just have to trust your hosts. There we were in Homewood, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, enjoying breakfast in Demetri’s BBQ. This was …
‘You got beautiful eyes,’ said the waitress as she brought me a bottle of beer. My wife was in the bathroom at the time. The waitress wasn’t flirting, she …
If the queue outside Betty’s Tea Room in Harrogate is too long – and it’s usually so long you’d be forgiven for thinking the place was actually a cinema …
Gerald R Ford has the distinction of being the only person to have served as both President and Vice-President of the USA without being elected to either office. He …
I thought the waiter was just bringing us another beer, but there was far more to it than that. For a start, he wasn’t the waiter he was …
