Ljubljana – the cutest, most compact capital in Europe
Foreigners Everywhere Part 4 London, Paris, New York … Ljubljana? I love capital cities for all the sprawl, noise and attention that the world’s greatest examples demand. Slovenia’s capital and…
Trieste – the blended city
Foreigners Everywhere Part 3 Travelling northeast by train from Venice we find ourselves in the seaport of Trieste, close to the border with Slovenia. Proudly Italian I’m told, but a…
Hungry for more – what we ate in Venice
Foreigners Everywhere Part 2 It’s an unfortunate truth but in a city literally overflowing with water, tourists, and restaurants it can be difficult to find that genuinely authentic Venetian eating…
Foreigners Everywhere Part 1
The 60th International Art Exhibition, Venice 2024 We have been coming to Venice regularly since the early 2000s when our eldest son was a fine art student and could enthusiastically…
Lockdown inspires author’s ‘bite-sized’ travel memoir
Suffolk Free Press, published 23 December 2021 Bite-sized World available in paperback and ebook https://amzn.to/33KpEDH
Bite-sized World
Travel, eating out and live entertainment - the activities that enrich our lives - are celebrated in this entertaining, but unexpectedly nostalgic memoir of recent times. From adjusting to expat…
The Wishing Shelf Book Awards
The Wishing Shelf Book Awards named Where are the grown-ups? as a finalist in the 2020 Adult Non-Fiction category. It's rare in any book award to receive specific feedback from…
An Online Event for Family History, Ancestry and Genealogy Researchers
The Genealogy Show is a two-day virtual event from Friday 25 June (12:00AM BST) – Saturday 26 June 2021 (11:59PM BST) I’m a speaker this year and in two online…
Colchester Holocaust Memorial Day 2021
The organisers of Colchester’s Holocaust Memorial Day asked me to contribute to this year's online events and I am grateful for the opportunity to make it meaningful despite the current…
Success for Where Are The Grown-Ups? at Independent Author Network Book of the Year Awards 2020
Where are the grown-ups? is among the finalists in the Memoir category of the Independent Author Network Book of the Year Awards 2020. The US-based book contest, endorsed by the…
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