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...

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...

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...

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...

Food, glorious food. Have booked myself in for a week's Italian lessons in Sicily. stopping overnight in Catania near the fish markets. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

#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...