On the up? Looking beyond the obvious for beneficiaries of Covid

For years my co-managers have laughed at my obsession with lifts. One of my favourites is in the Bulgarian Central Bank building.

It has a spectacular, ever-rotating mechanism of rising platforms onto which you jump when they pass. No safety doors but one great adrenaline rush - and, given how cheap budget airline tickets are, better value than a day at Alton Towers, outside lockdown. My unusual passion has taken me far beyond Bulgaria. One memorable trip in Japan was to meet the management at Fujitec, based in Hikone, over 200 road miles from Tokyo. It was quite a trek for a 90-minute meeting, but worth it for everything I learned about the industry and its potential for investors. UK equity income investing: H...