Ten Knights in Malta, November 2016
Merhba! I have finally found the escape chute again & this week it has deposited me on the islands of Malta. Occupying a central position […]
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Europe
Switzerland and Liechtenstein by Train, August 2015
I’ve spent the last week in a jaunt criss-crossing Switzerland and the postage stamp – sized principality of Liechtenstein using the Swiss Rail network. It
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The Haute Route – walking the Swiss Alps, August 2015
It was time once again to challenge the physical body and so I have just returned sun-bronzed and weary from hiking the walker’s ‘Haute Route’
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Of Gargoyles and the Flaming Green Fairy- Czech Republic, October 2013
My latest post comes from the Czech Republic whose lands were known in the Middle Ages as the Kingdoms of Bohemia and Moravia. While travelling
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From Belle Epoque to Eastern Bloc – Hungary, October 2013
I could easily wander the wide avenues and river banks of Budapest and be swept along by an innocent cosmopolitan romance. Much of the architecture
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So to Finnish – Finland & Estonia, July 2013
It’s been a long time between cathedrals but it has been a pleasant change to come in from the wilds and defrost among the architecture
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A Viking Summer- Iceland, July 2013
Iceland. First impressions are of an immense grey sky and a vast landscape of volcanic rubble dusted with green lichen and cold creeping moss. Dirty,
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A Viking Summer – Greenland, July 2013
Hallo all. I have resurfaced a stone’s throw from the arctic circle, having hopscotched from Reykjavik, Iceland to southern Greenland. While more than eighty percent of
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