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Category Archives: travel

Road Trip!

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

Old travel stories: Belize Jungle Boogie

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 [...]

Old travel stories: Belize

I think it says a lot about Z and me that we invested so much more effort into planning our honeymoon than we did our wedding, and we chose Belize since it promised to cater to both of our passions: exploration (his) and lazing on books with beaches (mine). We went there in January [...]

I think I wish I was still in Greece

Misadventures in Pregnancy, part 2

To distract myself and to entertain you with something besides a litany of my woes i shall now post some pictures from Belize:
wonky table

A whimsical Jesus

The view from on high

Tenerife – pilot whales

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even children get older, I’m getting older too

To celebrate me turning 26 we went to Cornwall.
It had:
Tide mandated parking

Porno Mermaids

Lovely scenery

Now I’m back in London, quietly expiring on my day off while the neighbours upstairs seem to be having sex and doing DIY at the same time. More power to them.

The plains of Spain, and other journeys

Previous holidays had highlighted distinct differences in temperament between Z and myself (in a nutshell: I wanted to eat and be lazy, he wanted to be active and explore shit) but this time we managed to maintain mutual respect and harmony (although it was touch and go for a while when meals got delayed).
We saw [...]

and the beauty of the snow is how it falls

I had a windowseat and the view took my breath away. Everything, everywhere, as far as the eye could see was a blanket of white dotted with trees and cut through the occasional black tendrils of roads, and the fat snake of the river dotted with ice floes like glittering scales.
It was beautiful. Like another [...]

*sniffle*
Last entry from Oz I think, as tomorrow we leave.
Spent the day very pleasantly being driven around Blue Mountains (so called on account of the bluish haze that forest of Eucalyptus trees produce) and looking at various cliffs and rock formations and people patiently bearing with me taking pictures of every tree, and soaked in [...]