Category: Travel
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Magic and mountains and cakes….
Once I stayed in a haunted house after a literary festival in Scotland. It was so haunted, in fact, that my friend and I crept out in the very very early morning to drive home through some very remote countryside. We cheered ourselves up imagining a perfect cafe suddenly appearing – warm, with delicious pastries…
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Silence in the nature reserve
And a happy new year to you all! I think it’s still all right to say that, but this has been my theme recently… just a little too late! We spent the weekend after the new year in the middle of silence. It was beautiful. I’d been wanting to stay at the Elmley Nature Reserve…
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Making Patterns in Vietnam – a prose poem and a song
To being with it was the uniformity that gets you. You feel as if the patterns on the hillside were reflecting and softening the patterns inside you. Like walking the labyrinth, you are being settled by the landscape. Dig your fingers in earth for five minutes has the same chemical benefits as taking a Prozac pill – you’ve…