Category Archive: Away

29 Aug

Velo, Wine and Veritas

A cycle journey along the Romantische Strasse Main/Tauber Cycling, like walking is another action where one really can feel at home; at one’s own pace, brushed by the wind, reaching…
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08 Aug

Walking inside a Dictionary

A visit to Biel/Bienne Nick and I are currently visiting Rachel in her new Swiss home in Biel/Bienne, a completely bilingual town. It is like walking inside a dictionary. Where…
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24 Jul

Munro walking without a beard*

A two woman Munro walk on Bidean nam Bian The other weekend I went out with Andrea Geile, a fellow artist and fellow female to conquer 2 of my last…
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30 Jun

Can the Ugly be Beautiful?

Berlinale and Wahlheimat 30MAY KL 1450 ABERDEEN DYCE AMSTERDAM 17:25 ABZ AMS 20:00 30MAY KL 1835 AMSTERDAM BERLIN TEGEL 20:45 AMS TXL 22:00 Never wrote about Berlin in this blog.…
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29 Apr

Huntly – Sahara

A train journey from Huntly to the edge of the Sahara With my daughter Deborah May 17 March Huntly to London Huntly, Insch, Inverurie, Dyce, Aberdeen, Stonehaven, Montrose, Arbroath, Leuchars,…
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04 Mar

Marrakech biennial and beyond

Marrakech Biennial 2014 A conversation with my travel companion Kate Sargent Kate, what was your first reaction when it was suggested that we could go to the Marrakech Biennale? I…
March 4, 2014 at 9:23 am 1 Comment
28 Oct

Whistle Stop tour around the Venice Biennial from my/our memory*

4-7 October 2013, with Louise Scullion Arrival from Edinburgh at Marco Polo, bus, vaporetto, check in Hotel la Meridiana at Lido. Quick espresso, vaporetto, San Marco. Search for Scotland palazzo.…
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26 Sep

Kithasamba, or The Great one who does not Climb*

A six day walk in the Rwenzori mountains, the Mountains of the Moon 20/08/2013: Trekkers Hostel, look out of door, lots of people, what are they doing there?, never seen…
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20 May

Hotel Bedroom Art

My Bedroom Art page comments on the kind of way that people decorate guest rooms around the world. Ecce Homo Convent in Jerusalem: A great oasis in the bustling, contested…
May 20, 2013 at 7:03 am Leave a comment
10 Mar

Huntly – Rovaniemi – Huntly

Huntly, Insch, Inverurie, Dyce, Aberdeen, Stonehaven, Montrose, Arbroath, Dundee, Kirkcaldy, Inverkeithing, Kirkcaldy, Haymarket, Edinburgh Waverly, Berwick-on-Tweed. Newcastle, Darlington, York, Doncaster, London Kings Cross, London St Pancras, Bruxelles Midi/Brussel Zuid, Brussels…
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