James Henderson's Online Beach Bar

A travel writer with a 35 year speciality in the Caribbean, @ the Online Beach Bar, endurance sportsman @ in Action & Theory, also @YoungLawrence of Arabia.

[James Henderson's Online Beach Bar @Jamesh5]

I know, I know, my profile implies spend most of my time in a Caribbean hammock, but occasionally I make a 1000 mile journey by bicycle, in this case in pursuit of the young Lawrence of Arabia... Read about it in my French cycle Journal

https://t.co/ftkGHZkCw6

[James Henderson's Online Beach Bar @Jamesh5]

@Josephineperry Sad for them too, I heard somewhere that they pair for life. Once saw 19 together, no idea what that meant, but it was in another country, so perhaps it had no significance at all...

[James Henderson's Online Beach Bar @Jamesh5]

@mounteagle Possibly using AI 'in the style of Andrew Eames' to save you the trouble of doing it yourself.. . Glad to hear about their tenure, though makes all the difference...

[Hugo Kaaman @HKaaman]

Pro-Ukrainian Chechen foreign fighters near Bakhmut recently ”prepared a gift” for the Russians. It’s an RC-VBIED with a ~700kg explosive charge consisting of 60+ TM-62M anti-tank mines, sections of a DKRP-4 mine-clearing charge, TNT blocks, & det cord - h/t @CalibreObscura

[James Henderson's Online Beach Bar @Jamesh5]

@janeeknight Code for the person who blagged the scoop, methinks...

[Sophie Campbell @aguidetolondon]

And editors. Been going on for years. Talk about something that needs calling out. #freebies

[James Henderson's Online Beach Bar @Jamesh5]

@aguidetolondon Might have more pimms for you on our Kensington gardens discovery tour tomorrow afternoon...

[Anthony Sattin @anthonysattin]

Because it is always time to read.

[James Henderson's Online Beach Bar @Jamesh5]

@Willhide More ' please join us this evening' I'd say. If past tense merci de nous avoir rejoint

[James Henderson's Online Beach Bar @Jamesh5]

In the cycle tracks of the young Lawrence of Arabia. Tomorrow is Mont St Michel and an omelette by Mere Poulard. Well, for me, not for him...

[Simon Calder @SimonCalder]

Virgin Atlantic resumes scheduled passenger operations 24 July. New normal.
I would have offered you odds of 1,000:1 against Sir Richard Branson’s airline flying to Orlando from Heathrow Terminal 2. But Gatwick has been abandoned for now and T3 is closed.
https://t.co/0F8Zp8QaBo

[James Henderson's Online Beach Bar @Jamesh5]

@ZennorC Don't forget Carl Hiaasen, the finest florida nuttiness, loved Christopher moore's Coyote Blue too

[James Henderson's Online Beach Bar @Jamesh5]

The First Photograph - I am recreating the photos of the young TE LAwrence on his cycle journeys through France in 1906-8
https://t.co/H8DGRLQrpc

[James Henderson's Online Beach Bar @Jamesh5]

I just subscribed to Marklands https://t.co/jbG6LrldIw

[James Henderson's Online Beach Bar @Jamesh5]

The steed has got off the sofa and can smell some adventure outside. Setting off in the trail of TE Lawrence through Normandy and Brittany tomorrow night... #YoungLawrenceofArabia #FrenchCastles #JLaverack #RideAERA #ALifeofAdventure #ultracycling

[James Henderson's Online Beach Bar @Jamesh5]

My year of cycling, @BikingMan_Ultra (1040km non-stop Oman), then in the trail of TE Lawrence, before he was 'of Arabia' (Wales, 1000km) with more to follow in France. And the FT has just run a piece about gravel racing.

#cycling #ultracycling #bikingman

https://t.co/e73BTcHsJY

[James Henderson's Online Beach Bar @Jamesh5]

Sophie Raworth kindly penned a few words of advice for those who dream about running across the desert...

[Sophie Raworth running… @Raworthontherun]

This time last year I was about to set off for the @marathonDsables and was absolutely terrified. Now I’m rather envious of those getting ready to go. https://t.co/TDaJ94CieV

[James Henderson's Online Beach Bar @Jamesh5]

Life races in the Tropics: greenery creeps and clambers, encroaching, uncontrolled. Then love burst into bloom. I gorged its fruit; a blushing mango, banana and the tingling pink pawpaw. But then, overripe, it turned. And tipped, regretfully, into something rotten. #writecbc

[James Henderson's Online Beach Bar @Jamesh5]

A weekend without much sleep, but then pilgrimage is not suppose to be easy
https://t.co/rfj4oh2Yl9