I spent a week in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, recently. It was my first time in this interesting country, the only Western European state that I hadn’t visited before. I wasn’t really there on holiday, enjoyable though it was, I…
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon Portugal When I was in Portugal the other week for a poetry workshop, I had a free Sunday and decided to spend it at the impressive Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. This dramatic Modernist…
It all started last summer when I booked a two week holiday in Venice but let my finger slip on the British Airways website only to find that when I went for my return flight I had mistakenly bought a…
When I left for a week in Lisbon in mid April, my Lewes garden was mostly daffodils and budding tulips and, of course, my much loved camellia. When I returned, there had been one of those great seasonal shifts…
I didn’t go to Venice for the wisteria last week. I didn’t know about it. April in Venice has many wonders but these wonderful plants, in full bloom, were more than just an added bonus. Take a look at…
I was planning a celebrationary blog today as I’d been forced off-line since early April by computer problems. Thankfully my technology is now back to normal but I don’t feel like celebrating my return online or my return from holiday…
My camellia is having its best year so far here in my Lewes, UK, garden – it has stopped sulking after a repotted it three years ago and, this year, it is actually telling me that I am forgiven.…
There’s a lot of yellow out there through my window. When the sun is shining too, I’m truly convinced that my garden is wishing us all a Happy Easter with a golden burst of daffodils just as the…
Here in my final blog about a splendid week’s holiday in the South of France, I’ll let my camera do the talking but it should be sufficient to tell you that I spent a memorable Monday visiting the beautiful city…
My week in Sète, in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of Southern France, was quietly pleasure-filled. There was a lot to do and to see including the glorious city of Montpellier (the subject of a later blog) but there was also…