Category Archives: Travel

“Really Traffic” or “Jurassic Prawns”

Posted on 18 October 2018 by sheg4184

i could not find the ballads or read the books dedicated to writing the grief we fall into when friends leave it is the type of heartache that does not hit you like a tsunami it is a slow cancer … Continue reading →

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Soaking up the Sweden Sunshine

Posted on 30 July 2018 by sheg4184

Its been an exceptionally hot, dry summer in Europe this year. Fabulous for us and our tent, but not so fabulous for the farmers. I was born in one of the driest states in the world, where we grew up … Continue reading →

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Of Fjords and Waterfalls, Salmon and Seagulls

Posted on 18 July 2018 by sheg4184

Norway in mid-summer, and those never-ending Scandinavian days, when the sun sets in the north-west for a mere blink of the eye, before rising again in the north-east. Birds chatter and chirp for as long as the sky is bright, … Continue reading →

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Wild Asparagus, Wild Strawberries

Posted on 9 July 2018 by sheg4184

‘England represented the safety and comfort of familiarity but France dared me with challenges and rewarded me with the thrill of new discoveries within myself.’ ~ Barbara Santich Remember what it is like to be a footloose student or a … Continue reading →

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Travelling North

Posted on 1 July 2018 by sheg4184

It was simply an overnight stop en route to the ferry port at Hertshals. We had spent the previous night at a Holiday Inn near Bremen Airport. The location, opposite a runway and a building site, was hardly salubrious, but … Continue reading →

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Strolling Through Ghent

Posted on 15 June 2018 by sheg4184

We first visited Ghent in March this year. The temperature dropped overnight from 17’C to -2’C, and we lay in bed watching the snow outside our window drift down onto the canal. Unprepared and under-dressed for such late winter weather, … Continue reading →

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A Summer Picnic on the Loire

Posted on 24 March 2018 by sheg4184

Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! ‘Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of the old life and into the new! Then some day, … Continue reading →

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Of White Port, Peacocks and Pimientos de Padrón…

Posted on 12 March 2018 by sheg4184

‘If I were to write about the happiest days of my life, many of them would have to do with food and wine and a table full of friends.’ ~ Charles Simic, poet Luxembourg had eight hours of sunlight in … Continue reading →

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Snapshots of Scotland

Posted on 25 February 2018 by sheg4184

It must be thirty years since I last visited Scotland, land of lochs, Highland cattle and kilts. It was a Christmas with friends on the Isle of Skye that ended in tears when we were unceremoniously evicted on New Year’s … Continue reading →

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Citrus Drizzle Cake

Posted on 12 November 2017 by sheg4184

Its mid-October and the sun is getting lazy, rising reluctantly well after eight o’clock. Yet, way down south on the toenail of Spain, there is still heat in that slothful sun. Andalucia. Vejer de la Frontera. A sprawling hilltop town … Continue reading →

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