Maurice Greenham

Tag: Travel

  • Turning 84

    These days I like to keep my birthdays low key and hope not too many people notice the passing of another year. Don’t get me wrong I am not embarrassed by my age – quite the contrary I celebrate it. Not everyone has the privilege of becoming an octogenarian…let alone a long-term survivor of HIV.…

  • June 2025

    My adventures in Argentina were fantastic, fabulous and phenomenal, leaving a keen desire to return. However, life in Stoke on Trent since my return has been no less eventful. I never expected to be doing so much in my 80s… but being so active at eighty is great and to be celebrated. The role of…

  • Argentina 2025

    My experience of an emergency visit to A&E at Stoke Royal hospital in November, did not deter me from undertaking an adventure in Argentina at the end of the year. The travel insurance company said I was covered, and no medical professional offered any objections…so off I went. I left Manchester for Frankfurt on New…

  • Colombia 2024

    Colombia has fascinated me ever since I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Gabo) when I was studying Spanish A level at Stoke College. Marquez was a Colombian writer who, in 1982, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his novel Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years if Solitude). The fictional town of Maconda, which…