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17 avril 2020 · Hitchcock birds gull
Hitchcock (and Daphne du Maurier) were right. Birds are dangerous creatures, especially right now...
25 avril 2019 · Cyprus goats,yoga
After Cyprus's worst winter for 100 years, spring arrived suddenly around ten days ago. At the...
9 avril 2019 · Cyprus storms weathe
Cyprus has never been so green. In April, usually the mountainsides have their wild flowers but...
6 avril 2019 · pirates cruise Oman
It's a baking hot January day, sailing in the Arabian Sea. Leaving the Musandam Peninsula – the...
1 janvier 2019 · Cava Champagne Fizz
OK, I know it's all over and it was last night that we broke open the fizz. But if you're...
19 septembre 2018 · Cyprus goats
Goats are everywhere in Cyprus. Especially where we live – the last house up the mountain. We had...
31 août 2018 · Greenland Erik Inuit
Greenland is big, really big, but not much of it is what you'd call habitable. It has,...
16 août 2018 · Iceland glacier fjor,Iceland global warm
I've just stepped off a ship (Fred Olsen's Boudicca) and in to a geography text book. Iceland has...
7 août 2018 · Northern Ireland
At Belfast City Airport, I was picked up by an English taxi driver now resident in Northern...
26 juillet 2018 · matterhorn selfies
Mountains are unlike other landscapes. They stand in dominating isolation, have their own strange...
8 mai 2018 · Crete Atlantis Minoa
Crete is an island that's built on a mountainous, monumental scale. Peaks soar to over 8000ft ...
11 avril 2018 · Amsterdam stairs
It was Wallis Simpson who said "You can never be too rich or too thin." She wasn't the first to...
12 décembre 2017 · heart bypass surgery
It's just over a week since Philip had a triple heart bypass. It has transformed my husband -...
17 novembre 2017 · Lanzarote farm deser
Who would try to farm in the desert? And, what's more, a desert created not just by drought but...
27 octobre 2017 · Spa Travel Mayr
Who in their right mind would get up in the dark to go wandering in the woods in late October?...
29 septembre 2017 · Marmaris Turkey spas
Marmaris is on Turkey's appropriately named Turquoise Coast. The water is warm and inviting and...
22 septembre 2017 · Jordan Jerash UmmQai
Jordan is one of my top three favourite countries. I've visited many times over the last 15 years...
21 août 2017 · ballet,theatre,London,Dylan,Mariinsky
After all the travelling, it's good to come home to London especially in the summer when the...
13 juillet 2017
The Gardens of Irini were until last year not just the home of my old friend Deirdre Guthrie,...
4 juillet 2017
August is a month best avoided in Cyprus. Unfortunately, this year it decided to arrive in June....
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