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Wroclaw and Warsaw.
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...
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vanessavecellio
Dec 22, 20213 min read
Krakow, Poland.
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...
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Nov 19, 20214 min read
Prague.
Of elegance and swans. Prague station is an art nouveau wonder and again, dressed magically for Xmas. My hotel is opposite the Erotic...
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Nov 11, 20212 min read
Leipzig.
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...
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Nov 2, 20213 min read
Odense
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...
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Oct 24, 20212 min read
Bergen.
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...
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Oct 16, 20214 min read
Norway.
Ice bars and Vikings. A couple of reasons for my trip to Norway, one perfectly normal - the Xmas markets! The second, was to see a...
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Oct 10, 20212 min read
Lake Bled.
A beautiful interlude. It's raining as I leave for Lake Bled but the autumn colours are only enhanced by the rain, everything varnished...
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Oct 5, 20215 min read
Ljubljana - Slovenia.
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...
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Oct 2, 20213 min read
Auronzo
Coming home. I have never been here in the autumn. The colours are amazing. The rusting leaves, saffron golds, the turquoise depths of...
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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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Aug 24, 20213 min read
Marrakesh.
Of snake charmers and charming men. The Riad is beautiful, my room feels like I'm swimming in a turquoise sea. I eat at the restaurant...
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Jun 25, 20211 min read
Return to Lisbon.
This is a prelude, a short interlude to the best story of my 14 months away. We came back to Lisbon to divert to other locations, other...
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Jun 11, 20213 min read
Madrid, back to.
Passion, paella, flamenco and bars. I've returned for a couple of days in Madrid, en route to meet up with the daughter in Portugal to...
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Jun 5, 20212 min read
Madrid.
MIND ALTERING. Ah Madrid! What an entrance through the airport! Stunning architecture. After a day's travelling, we dropped our bags off...
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Jun 1, 20212 min read
Home away from home.
We arrived to autumnal air, crisp at the edges and cooling to our souls and bodies. Now I know why Italians escape to the mountains. Our...
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May 29, 20214 min read
Trapani - Trapped in....
Sometimes I don't research a place enough, this was that time. Trapani looked a good option on Instagram but in reality, it wasn't. We...
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May 25, 20213 min read
Palermo - A collage of cultures.
Woke at dawn and looking out the window, saw people just going home, the girls with high heels in hand and maybe a partner, a lover...
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May 18, 20214 min read
Crete - Of snake goddesses and minotaurs.
So bae departed today to Cyprus and we were to leave for Crete. Bae's boat was very late and was so tiny and the seas so rough that she...
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