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…
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…
A baker, a king and a slice of family history
My paternal grandfather, Aaron Miller was a master baker and by 1920 he owned his own shop in London. People would travel across the city to buy the bread, cakes…
London Calling
Some business and a lot of pleasure took us back to ‘the smoke’ for a few days but it turns out we were missed at the Mount, as on our return our neighbours declared it was good to see us back! After just a few days in London, where we were insignificant specks in the crowd, being noticed felt good. (more…)
Location, Location, Location!
We’re back! After two and half years in the adult playground-cum-sandpit of Dubai we return to the motherland, free as birds. We could live anywhere in the UK we say. Yorkshire was a beautiful home for many years, but we fancy a change (and a kinder climate,‘cos after Dubai, we’re wimps). Many viewings later, across several southern counties, we find The One.
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Georgia On My Mind
I doubt Georgia would have been on my holiday radar from the UK, but that was then and this is now. The world map looks different from Dubai and the cheap flight schedules put Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital, within easy reach. Georgia lies to the south of Russia, where Eastern Europe meets Asia and the flying time is only three hours from Dubai. (more…)
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