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Author Archives: Nina

August 19, 2009 – 5:04 am

Travelling to Montenegro. Offline until September. Back with proper material after that.

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July 29, 2009 – 12:56 pm

Today we embark on the final leg of the Road Trip (Washington DC to Chicago, via West Virginia, Ohio and Indiana) so proper posting will resume when I’m reunited with the loving arms of London internet on Sunday.

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BlogHer Day 1

July 24, 2009 – 12:38 pm

I would apologise for writing about Chicago before writing about Segment 1 of the road trip (Northern Illinois and Iowa) or my 29th birthday which I celebrated on the Mississipi with a boatful of Texan octagenerians, except that my rudementary set-up of phone and keyboard doesn’t let me post any pictures and also I’m [...]

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Road Trip!

July 20, 2009 – 11:12 pm

I am in America! It is great fun.
Proper words and pictures coming soon.

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A study in red and white

July 19, 2009 – 10:52 am
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The scent of wet lilac followed me home, like the ghost of you

July 18, 2009 – 6:47 pm
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The ingredients of a perfect afternoon

July 18, 2009 – 12:46 am

London life at its finest, there.

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DIY Wallpaper

July 14, 2009 – 8:51 am

I love colours on walls, and painting the white wallpaper in our tiny spare room was the agreed testing ground for bolder projects. I first sketched out the design of the tree and raven in pencil, and then painted the sky (a combination of deep blue and purple tempera) and then the ground (ochre). [...]

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Current Travel Obsessing: BlogHer Dresses

July 13, 2009 – 8:02 am

My preferred method of packing is to leave it all until the last minute and then rush around in a faff while the ticking vein in Z’s forehead becomes more pronounced.
However, due to the fact that I’ll be working all day the day before we leave – I’ve started packing and planning in advance.
Normally my [...]

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Old travel stories: Belize Jungle Boogie

July 12, 2009 – 2:28 am

N: What can I say about Belize?
Z: It’s wet and green. And it doesn’t have roads.
Most of Belize is jungle, which in some areas looks primordial and huge – all tangled canopies and gigantic ferns and tree roots the size of my leg – while in other places it looks more like a dense European [...]

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