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In my first post just on three months ago I mentioned how I was going to take the opportunity and inspiration of travel to establish a new habit, that of writing regularly. Well, that worked for a short while, particularly while I was travelling alone, but as I began to work (volunteer) with others I […]
July 30th 2018 Many years ago one branch of my family tree lived in and around Northamptonshire, in the area around Moulton and Moulton Park. In a family history of the Nethercote/Pell family, my 4th Great Grandparents owned a pub at Buttocks Booth, now Boothville. It may even have been the pub now called The […]
When I arrived in London I was fortunate enough to find accommodation with a friend of a friend. I was told beforehand what an amazing place I was about to see and what amazing people I was about to meet. I was not misled on either account. I don’t even know where the house is located, a […]
I decided to leave London on Friday, but hadn’t quite decided where to. At Paddington station I got to the ticket counter and asked for a ticket west to Wales. Where in Wales he asked. I don’t know I replied. How about Swansea he suggested. Sounds fine I said. At this point a man in […]
I met up with Jon at the Vaulty Towers pub near Waterloo station at lunchtime the day I arrived in London. I first met Jon at Pula in Croatia where he and a team of people were working on the build for the Dimensions and Outlook festivals. The build is the process of turning a […]
I was waking along a pathway near Big Ben and the Thames when I saw a section of garden with an interesting, almost overgrown pathway heading between the trees. I was intrigued, a winding path disappearing into the gloom, so I decided to explore. As I got close I discovered it wasn’t as obscure as […]
At airports I often see people I think I know, but I don’t, and sometimes if our eyes meet they do a double take and I think they think they know me too. Do you think this is a good enough basis for an introduction?
I caught the train to Melbourne to get to the airport. I was sitting with two other men around my age until the journey was two thirds over, then suddenly the conversation started to pick up. I just listened in for s while but then the conversation turned to living in East Gippsland, why that […]
It amazes me how quickly small children can go from sweetness and light to devil incarnate. Airports must tap into spiritual faultlines, or else create them, where goodwill is buried under an inexorable flood of bad vibes, like lava out of a fractured volcano. Or perhaps they turn the chemtrails on too late. Everywhere else […]
Each time I have travelled I have managed to do it with less and less baggage. Firstly it was about just travelling with carry on size for flying which I could just manage with a 42 litre pack, and using compression sacks to get more into a small space. On top of that I was […]