In Spring, 2020, Covid-19 suddenly leaps onto the world’s stage and everyone’s life just…changes. Whilst still adjusting to the shock, fear and horror of it all, the UK goes into lockdown. None of us knows…
Posts tagged volunteering
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…
21. The Dory story
Steve’s daughter, Rosie, is one of those warm and lovely people that attract lots of other warm and lovely people. And then she looks after them all, so they stay in her life forever (my…
20. Angloville 2: my lovely wife
It is time for our second bash at volunteering with Angloville, the English immersion course that we came across in Slovakia (read the full story here). This one takes place in southern Poland, which is…
19. Angloville 1: the dumpling days
Angloville is a company that runs immersive courses in English, specifically for people who have a goodish grasp of the language, but need to improve their confidence, fluency or pronunciation. So you spend several days…
18. Oh, Vienna
At this stage in our travels, I am starting to feel the need to give back. I’d always planned to do some volunteer work as we travelled, but so far I’ve just been having an…