Cambridge with the Bankers

The Master’s Summer Dinner at Jesus College, then colleges, pubs, tower steps, and the Botanic Garden.

Goulash and grandeur

Four days in Budapest for a stag do: the old city, a Danube cruise, and one very loud morning.

Watching the National from the Lord Daresbury roof, then an unplanned bonus day in Liverpool.

Raiding the Pokémon pop-up at the Natural History Museum, then an Island collectors’ fair finishes the job.

St Patrick’s Day in Belfast, a warm welcome at Ark Lodge, and two Titanic souvenirs banned from the boat.

The International Bankers’ annual banquet beneath the chandeliers of the Egyptian Hall, with toasts, venison, and a carpet guard from HMS Belfast.

From Benidorm to Edinburgh by first class train, for the oldest lodge in the world and a reply to the visitors’ toast.

Mark Masons in the tallest hotel in Europe, port at the secretaries’ table, and lunch in Altea.