This summer was a lot of fun. This summer was interesting, tiring, exhausting, emotional and full of adventure. I left my job mid July, and as I wrote last time, went immediately on a camping trip before my first (of 3) visitors arrived. This lady is a friend from Taiwan, originally a friend of a…
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Breaking the silence
I think it’s been around 4 months since I last wrote. This will be a short one, a sort of ‘closure’ post for myself as I feel the inspiration of writing returning to me but I want to have a small round up/clear the air post before I get back into it. Since returning from…
Brief Encounters of the 2018 Kind
Disclosure here – after 5 weeks of traveling, sharing buses, buying tickets, asking for directions, waiting for transport, sleeping on hard seats, smelling airport loos and tripping over bags on the floor… I am becoming a little sensitive to stranger encounters and this is a bit of a rant-like post 🙂 I’ll add photos of…
En France… En famille
I’ve been trying to figure out the right way to post an article about my week in France. To find the words I want to say, to describe my emotions throughout the trip, to explain the emotional path I went through – am still going through… and yet, I’m still feeling the feelings and cannot…
It’s going to be tough to leave…
I’m almost half way through my trip back to Europe. I’ve been to Spain, to Worcester, to Southampton, back to my hometown: Newcastle and to Lincoln (where most of my UK family live). I’m currently writing from Farnborough where my father works during the week, I can hear him breathing as he sleeps and it’s…
NoNewClothes Project Finale
It’s been a year, in fact, a little over a year and I feel it is time to write about the project of 2017. November of 2016 I decided to spend an entire year without buying new clothes for myself. I decided this as an experiment and also, a necessity. Figuring that for the first…
Nostalgia hits hard
For those of us who travel often, who have moved abroad be it once, twice or as a hobby… there is a time that we are suddenly hit by a memory. Occasionally that memory can feel great, of people, places, laughter, sometimes it can be sad, of regret, grief or betrayal. They come and go…
The cost of everything…
Merry and Christmas and Happy New Year! Get those out of the way before I rant on… It was a lovely christmas actually, it has been the hardest of times and my need to distance myself (usually literally, Texas, Beijing?!) shines through.. This year, I was invited to spend a few days with my father…
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