by Dave Painter | Feb 4, 2018 | Global Events
I first came across Lewis on a bitterly cold morning in Oulu, central Finland. I was there to cover the World Winter swimming Championships for a couple of clients.I was walking about lost trying to find the press centre (the local library) and saw another chap who...
by Dave Painter | Jan 4, 2018 | British at Play, Global Events
Firstly, let me explain a brief history of this sport – it‘s believed to have been played for many years on the subcontinent, but it wasn’t formalized as a “sport,” until 1982. In a bar in St. Moritz where Jim Edwards, owner of Tiger Tops in Nepal,...
by Dave Painter | Nov 4, 2017 | Global Events
In this age of modern air travel, it is relatively easy for anyone with the means to book a flight to almost any corner of the Earth. Unless that corner is Antarctica, a place where you cannot simply pave a runway and start landing planes. Boarding the Russian...
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