Travel fiction – where the ‘right place’ transforms lives

Travel fiction – where the ‘right place’ transforms lives

Exmoor to Seville – The Tourist Dilemma

Exmoor to Seville – The Tourist Dilemma

by | Oct 31, 2024 | Travel

Off to Seville! I’m heading to Seville next week. My late father said it was the most beautiful city he’d ever seen, so it’s been on my travel list for many years. It will be a special mother-daughter trip. (I’m the mother, in case you wondered.) Maybe, for a few...
From Soggy Exmoor to the Parthenon

From Soggy Exmoor to the Parthenon

by | Apr 30, 2024 | Exmoor, Travel

Every conversation in the UK at the moment begins with a variation on, ‘Well, it’s still freezing cold and soaking wet, but here’s hoping for better weather ahead’. I’m wearing three layers in my office. Will the neighbours snigger if I retrieve the logs I removed...
What to Wear to the Airport: Freeze or Boil?

What to Wear to the Airport: Freeze or Boil?

by | Mar 28, 2024 | Humour, solo travel, Travel

This time next week I’ll be in sunny Athens. I’m combining this with a few days riding horses on the vehicle-less Greek island of Hydra. Can’t wait. Though the old seat bones are already complaining. They haven’t been on a horse in quite some time. I see their point....
Which Way to Edinburgh?

Which Way to Edinburgh?

by | Dec 27, 2023 | Anglophiles, Blog Post, British humour, Travel

Why do we wait to start new habits in January? Habit, I suppose. And herd mentality. No one’s fist-bumping you in August when you say, ‘that’s it, I’m giving up/starting a new/stopping this/learning that’, are they? But the whole world’s behind you on January 1st with...
Planes, Trains, and Chocolate Displays

Planes, Trains, and Chocolate Displays

by | Sep 29, 2023 | Blog Post, Travel

I’m much more familiar with airports than I am train stations. With most of my travel for years involving the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, the option for train usage has been somewhat limited. Even if it were a choice, would I take the London to New York 24-hour...