Back to my soul place for a last visit before returning to Australia. It's a long walk to the hotel but it's a lovely old one and I have...

Of ancestry and ghosts. We arrive from Poland to Modena to pack up the daughter's University year into boxes and take them back to...

The Rebuilding of History. This is a small but beautiful town, we have a lovely room overlooking a river and we come across a great vegan...

Beautiful old hotel and lovely big room overlooking a park. When we look out the window, there's a fluttering of snow. We wander off...

Waiting for a white Xmas. I'm getting ready for a European Xmas. Have bought a tree and filled it with the small decorations I've been...

Taking the waters. The scenery on the bus to Karlovy Vary is dramatic, wintry stark black trees, misty greys, soft mulberry shades...

Of hauntings. Had a day trip to this beautiful town whose street layout hasn't altered since medieval times, coming from Australia, this...

Home of Bach and chocolate! I'm sent off with Xmas cake, apple and water and I'm leaving for Leipzig, which boasts the biggest railway...

Place of fairytales. The cold is brittle here but I'm loving wearing coats, hats, gloves, layering. My cold has followed me on the bus to...

Fjords, fog and Glog. It snowed whilst waiting for the plane to Bergen, Norway's second largest city. I watched the big fat flakes slowly...

Fear and trembling. Heading home to meet up with the daughter, her partner and an Australian couple who've been living in England for a...

I fell in love! A female taxi driver picks me up, it's a rarity in Italy but she says there's ten in Trieste, she's Romanian, starting a...

From chaos to quiet sophistication. Back to Catania to a house hotel room up three flights of stairs! My room is called the Silk Road,...