Travel
WalkingWomen : Feliz Navidad in La Gomera, December 2022
If we were being honest, most of us had to look up the island of ‘La Gomera’, to locate it in the Canary Islands, due west of Morocco. Blessed with year-round sunshine and low rainfall, these islands make the perfect antidote to the winter gloom our group had blown in from. Two Americans, two Canadians and the rest from the UK, we stretched in the sunshine like lizards on a rock.
Solo female holiday in Norway
There’s more than a little magic in eating a sandwich at 1,516 metres, sitting on curly white lichen – “reindeer food”– with 12 female friends who only yesterday were complete strangers
The poet and the painter
After one hundred years of lying in a ‘known only to God’ grave in Flanders, my Great Uncle’s Grave was last year identified as belonging to him.
Travel Notes for the Faroe Islands
At 62 degrees north these islands are remote, sitting in the North Atlantic half way between Iceland and Norway and yet they are only an hour’s flight from Edinburgh.
Thirty-seven names for fog in the Faroe Islands
Discovering the magical fog of the Faroe Islands while attending a Nordic knitting festival.
