The Black Swan & Tommy Banks
It’s an hour’s drive from Everingham to Oldstead in Yorkshire, and Jerry, having spent his whole life in various spots along the way,...
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Andrea P
- Jul 9, 2021
- 2 min
Views from the Vaucluse
I first visited the Vaucluse (department #84) in 1984, when my Parisian friends, Patrick and Edmee, had purchased a former Ashram,...
Andrea P
- Feb 9, 2021
- 10 min
Painting in Tuscany (September 2019)
An early start out of Lucca saw us in Certaldo by 8:45am at the dealership responsible for delivering Karen’s hire car for use during her...
Andrea P
- Oct 3, 2020
- 6 min
Syria - the Arab Spring (March 2011)
Now here's a funny thing - Syrians love soap operas! Especially during Ramadan when everyone's in abstinence mode. Sitting around the...
Andrea P
- Apr 1, 2020
- 13 min
Andalusia aboard Al Andalus
Hopefully, we were saving the best until last - a week-long train trip around Andalusia. So Bill and I headed off to the Alfonso XIII...
Andrea P
- Oct 4, 2016
- 16 min
Jordan: Amman - Jerash - Madaba - Petra
After settling into my room at the Kempinski Amman, I headed down to breakfast at 6.30 and tucked into a pair of fried cackleberries but...
Andrea P
- Oct 8, 2014
- 8 min
Persepolis Plus
The drive from Isfahan to Shiraz takes about six hours, across a mostly barren landscape, but it’s full of interest, nonetheless. There...
Andrea P
- Oct 1, 2014
- 6 min
To Isfahan
Fifty kilometres out of Hamadan is the Iron Age mound of Tepe hush-i-Jan. In the middle of a vast plain, it’s a stiff climb up to the...
Andrea P
- Oct 1, 2014
- 5 min
Hamadan (ancient Ecbatana)
It’s day four swathed in headscarf and shapeless garb and I’m over it already. But Iranian women have to live with these cleric-imposed...
Andrea P
- Oct 8, 2013
- 4 min
The Fairweather Range and Lituya Bay
A highlight of Alaska, Glacier Bay is good tourist stuff, but, as usual, I managed to get utterly sidetracked by a nearby attraction –...
Andrea P
- Oct 1, 2013
- 3 min
Life and Death in Kamchatka
The native Kamchadals are pretty plucky folk. The aboriginal peoples (there are about five different tribes, but let’s not go into...
Andrea P
- Oct 28, 2012
- 12 min
Out-running Sandy
The flight from Barcelona to NYC was uneventful, as was clearing customs at JFK. I checked into the NY Athletics Club – a marvellous...
Andrea P
- Oct 13, 2010
- 20 min
The Galapagos
After checking into the Quito Swissotel, I met up with Lynne and Ed at the bar at 6pm, with much laughter all round. Their friends Morris...
Andrea P
- Oct 11, 2006
- 11 min
Tripping around Corsica
Corsica was the one region of France that Edmee hadn’t visited, so we took Easyjet from Orly, picked up my trusty little Citroen 3 from...
Andrea P
- Oct 2, 2005
- 43 min
Sicily Won
It’s a quick flight from Naples to Palermo – 30 minutes, just time to have some blood orange juice – before disembarking into the heat...
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