A Few Words of Introduction

  This blog is mostly about my travelling life alongside a smattering of history. I’ll try not to be too “Pliny the elder” by giving dates and figures and if I do go overboard sometimes on the historical data, no doubt someone will pull me up for it.

There will not be too much personal material here, my main aim is to offer a view of the culture of the places I visit, to savour the things that make a place different.  I shall try to show behind the scenes if possible but I won’t be offering you any very intimate tales.  I was in Thailand when the tsunami struck, lost some very good friends in that tragedy, but was never able to write about it. Still can’t, though I did visit Khao Lak a couple of years ago and managed a piece on the recovery made in that area.

‘Ten best’ is still good when reviewing towns or resorts but if I ever use material from a Press Release I will post a spoiler alert about this.

I’ve been travelling and writing about travel for over 40 years now, hitch-hiking between London and the continent when I was in my late teens and early twenties and then cycling and driving with my husband until his death some 17 years ago.  Now I either travel alone or with friends.

I love reading, writing, cinema, theatre, eating out, gardening, and spending time with friends.   I have an eye condition which prevents me working on the computer as much as I would like so I’m not able to blog as often as I would like, nor can I read as many blogs as I used to.