Amsterdam….of course. And exactly where did I leave my bike? Or was it here… (Must fit a plastic cover to that seat…) Living on a boat does not mean you can’t have a garden:
Torcello: living memory
Ernest Hemingway went there to shoot ducks in 1948, and to use the setting in his novel Across the River and Into the Trees, but he missed Torcello’s glory days by over a thousand years. Like an ancient dowager –
Food, glorious food…
A pragmatic traveller rather than a gourmet ‘to-go’, I rarely write about eating. But in the first of a series about my recent sojourn in Wellington, I decided to make an exception and start with food, so that you
Interview: Uuganaa Ramsay author of Mongol
Mongol [mong-gohl], noun, 1. a member of a pastoral people now living chiefly in Mongolia. 2. (offensive) a person affected with Down’s Syndrome. Uuganaa is a Mongol living in Britain, far from the world she grew up in: as a
Kiwi Magic
September first is officially spring in New Zealand, but what that means outside the window depends on where you live. Up here in the Far North, just within the subtropics, already evenings are lighter and the days warmer. Nothing can