A quick word about this blog – until now all my posts have been in chronological order, and I’ve shared my story with you just as it happened. And although I have many more tales…
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50. Knights in Romanian armour
The first skill someone MUST have in order to live a travelling life is the ability to drive the vehicle you’ve chosen. Guess what I can’t do? Go on, guess. My licence allows me up…
48. The last days of love
As many of you know, my husband and true love, Steve, died a year ago, on the day we would have started driving home from Portugal. My journey since then is a tale I’ll share…
47. Portugal in pink and blue
The Algarve is an area of Portugal rightly famed for its coastline. The simplest of online searches will provide images of pristine sands swept by dazzlingly blue seas. And that’s all well and good if…
45. Party on
Happy New Year everyone. I hope you’ve had everything you could want from the festive season. Last year we were in Greece, where it’s not that big of a deal. Consequently, we were freed from…
44. A tale of two pumps
Before we bought our American RV, Georgie, we had the same romantic notions of life on the open road that I think most people have: it was all about the adventure. We dreamed about the…
43. Beer, Beatles and bats
I’m flying to Prague and thinking about Shakespeare. He coined the phrase, ‘The world is mine oyster’, but I reckon he’d be mind-blown at the ease with which we all globe-trot these days. It’s all become…
42. A sign of the times
While it is true that travel broadens the mind, it also brings ones home country into sharp relief. Not so sharp as to be a shock, but sharp enough for me to be thinking, really?…
41. Anglovilles 3 & 4: One love
Two years ago I had a fantasy: I would travel the world slowly, staying for a few months at a time in quaint little towns. I’d become conversant in the language, and engage in some…