“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” Jack Kerouac A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step but what happens when you are striding out on distant shores and suddenly find the next step you had […]
“We still hope – those who were there – the living and the dead – that the vision of peace we lived during those few rare hours may be made real and everlasting.” Henry Williamson On Touching Landscapes, we would like to touch on the true essence of Christmas. As the festive season for 2014 […]
I first made contact with Stella de Genova, painter and artist, about a year ago. She has kindly supported my short stories by posting them on her blog at Vision Through Words. Today, it gives me great pleasure to return the compliment and feature her recent travel adventure through London and Paris – viva la […]
“Those who forget history are condemned to mangle it.” George Santayana We’re off to a great start with the following collection of hilarious bloopers and blunders on the so-called ‘facts’ of European history. Author and history professor Anders Henriksson has gathered many excerpts from his college students’ exam papers which will have you laughing out […]
When Amy first moved to the United Arab Emirates, she quickly learned about the customs, the world of sheikhs and their royal entourage. Working as a new English faculty member at a women’s technical college, Amy recalls an incident at a conference in Abu Dhabi: let’s follow Amy’s adventure as she takes us to meet […]
Harry and I first met Gal Lesham at the National Folk Festival in Canberra during a frisbee match on the main Oval at midnight. He was looking for a ride back to Melbourne. We offered to take him on the eight-hour drive south. We made an instant heartfelt connection with the young traveller from Israel […]
“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.” Galileo During late spring, when the Eastern Brown and Tiger snakes come out from winter hibernation to find a mate and warm their cold […]
“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.” Salvador Dalí The long weekend in Tossa de Mar passed all too quickly. At an early morning breakfast (8.30am by Spanish standards), we savoured the ritual delights of a buffet of croissants, a little bit of Spanish ham and […]
When showing our friends the extensive six week travel itinerary very neatly printed on one of Harry’s spreadsheets, with each day assigned a suggestion or five, we explained that we had left a four day gap open for exploring the Costa Brava. On seeing a potential opportunity to help us fill in the missing blanks, […]
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” Henry Miller On the Costa Brava between the Catalan city of Barcelona and the French border town of Cerbère, lies the medieval fishing village of Tossa de Mar. During the second most celebrated fiesta weekend throughout Spain, our trio is dragged into […]