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London - The pandemic begins.
So we've decided to return to Europe after going home for a month. The daughter has gotten into Heidelberg Uni, her partner will be...
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Jan 18, 20224 min read
Dublin, Ireland.
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...
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Sep 21, 20216 min read
Ortygia.
Island of gods. We students have all taken to having a macchiato with a pastry at break, caffeine and sugar are becoming more and more...
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Sep 8, 20217 min read
Syracuse - Ortygia.
Food, glorious food. Have booked myself in for a week's Italian lessons in Sicily. stopping overnight in Catania near the fish markets. ...
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Jul 31, 20214 min read
The Sahara.
Of ultimate glamping Sahara style, and camels. Hamsa walks me at a fast pace to my awaiting guides for the next leg of my journey. I've...
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Jul 24, 20213 min read
Volubilis and Meknes.
Of concubines and Berbers. My guide comes to retrieve me and my one small bag, I tell him he doesn't have to but he's insistent. I...
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Mar 3, 20213 min read
Orvieto and Siena. Past and present entwined.
From Florence we got a train and then a funicular up to Orvieto which is perched on a hill that is honeycombed through with Etruscan...
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Feb 8, 20215 min read
Modena to Firenze. Walking where artists trod.
Both with terrible flu, the partner on antibiotics and me trying not to be, we head to Modena to meet up with the daughter and her...
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Nov 29, 20203 min read
Porto -Home of the most beautiful bookshop in the world.
The old taxi driver, doubled over at right angles with a hunched back, insisted on putting my bags in his taxi. He tells me in...
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Nov 26, 20205 min read
Sintra - Roosters, swallows and eccentrics.
I'm in the mountains of Sintra where the nobility of Portugal built their palaces and villas to escape the heat of summer, as you do. My...
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Nov 23, 20203 min read
Lisbon - Of tarts and tiles.
I've worked my way down through Spain to Lisbon. I get a taxi to the hotel with a woman driver. That's a rarity here as in most places. ...
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Nov 20, 20204 min read
Seville. The dance of the night.
I’ve booked a beautiful hotel in Sevilla. A huge room awaits me complete with a bottle of wine and two wine glasses. I’m slightly sad...
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Nov 13, 20202 min read
Toledo - Of swords and churches.
I've chosen to go to Toledo, I can't remember why. Vague memories of Don Quixote, from a novel by Cervantes maybe, long ago read but...
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Nov 11, 20203 min read
Seduced in Barcelona.
I'm off to meet the daughter in Barcelona - as you do. She's booked us in to see Mumford & Sons. Very excited. On the plane to Spain,I'm...
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Nov 9, 20203 min read
Auronzo - Falling in love.
This place has never done a great deal for me, I’m a child of the cities where I can walk and watch people, look at art and search for...
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Nov 3, 20204 min read
Venezia - A dream unfulfilled.
So I booked an Air BnB for four nights in my spirit city so I could live as a honorary Venetian for a few days. My vision was to go to...
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Oct 19, 20203 min read
Sanremo, Italia.
I'm forsaking France for Italy, #Sanremo is the next stop. On the way the train is stopped as a windsurfer has been blown onto the...
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Oct 16, 20204 min read
Avignon and Van Gogh territory. Solo female travelling.
#Avignon is next and I am in the main street leading to a square full of restaurants with a Moroccan theme, every third restaurant serves...
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