112 postcards from Japan, Tokyo (part 2)

August 22, 2019.Reading time 5 minutes.

Day 3. Hot. Even hotter because the sun came out and literally baked us because of course today was the day we choose to walk through the Imperial Palace Garden (you’re only allowed freely into a small portion of it, but it’s really pretty)… go us! Funnily enough there weren’t many people out and about… […]

* 111 * postcards from Tokyo (part 1)

August 19, 2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

This morning we left Tokyo on the bullet train and it’s about time I summarise our time there. We have had a great time and it was the perfect introduction to a world so different from ours (even if the weather wasn’t the the best, extremely hot and humid but also overcast which is a […]

105 holiday recap

July 22, 2019.Reading time 7 minutes.

And we’re back. The sky is quite grey this morning, but we’re bracing ourselves for a heatwave in the next few days… we’ll see. They’re never as hot as they say. The laundry is almost all done – well, until no 1 and no 2 arrive back from their trip tomorrow and then we’re back […]

104 postcards from Greece, Nestor’s Palace

July 19, 2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

Day 4 We were offered the use of a free rental car for the afternoon but none of my travelling companions wanted to leave the resort for an adventure so I went on my own… (I get totally restless after a few days of no activity… I’m not good at the ‘lizard in the sun’ […]

103 postcards from Costa Navarino, Greece / ‘Forces of Nature’ (Jane Harper)

July 17, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

Day 3. But let’s talk about ‘Forces of Nature’, by Jane Harper. It’s another case for Aaron Falk, the Australian policeman whom we first met in her debut novel ‘The Dry’ (also brilliant). this time it’s a case of a woman missing ‘in the bush’ during a team building exercise gone wrong. Whilst I got […]

102 postcards from Costa Navarino, Greece

July 17, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Day 2

101 postcards from Costa Navarino, Greece

July 15, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Day 1. That was about it for today. More of the same tomorrow. (minus the cricket… but I’m sure my lot will be able to find other sporting events to subject me to!).

98 a day at Wimbledon

July 5, 2019.Reading time 3 minutes.

‘Wimbledon’ is as English as it’s possibly be… as English as strawberries and cream (sadly, I didn’t have any…) and Pimm’s (… ahem… moving on swiftly) and on a superbly sunny day like yesterday it was pretty glorious. (It is, however, incredibly and anachronistically white/middle class English… not quite, not at all actually, a true […]

95 postcards from Italy

July 1, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

One more posts. Just for me. So I can remember. Cesena: It was a fab few days. They could have been filled with longing and sadness but instead it was laughter and fondness and remembering and the certainty that leaving all those years ago had been absolutely the right thing to do. Friends, real friends, […]

94 postcards from Italy

June 30, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

Day 2. I woke up in my parents’ place in Tuscany… … and had to force myself to get up… it’s such a relaxing place I feel immediately lazy and chilled there… … the weather is incredible, really really hot. Not that I’m complaining! I then drove to my home town to have breakfast in […]

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