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 [...]
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 [...]
November 17, 2008 – 6:50 pm
When I trace the anatomy, the history of my relationship
…I think of that car park where we first kissed and he floored the gas by reflex and accident
…Of the first night we spent together and the wind that shook the trees and their branches that rattled against the windows of our house and his hands [...]
August 28, 2008 – 4:21 pm
Hello!
I have come back from Montenegro with my baby and 50% of my luggage. The other 50% is enjoying an extended holiday in Vienna.
Age at which Matei learns to pull himself up to stand holding on to bars of his cot – 7.5 months.
Age at which Matei manages to vault himself over the side of [...]
(Unbelievably despite lax organisational and time-keeping skills this is the first flight I´ve ever missed)
1.Book a flight that leaves at ridiculous o´clock
2.Make yourself overtired the night before and don´t do any packing
3. Oversleep by 20 mnutes
4. Stroke cats who have manifested on your bed instead of getting up
5.Clean house instead of packing.
6.Faff about with cats [...]
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.
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 [...]
February 11, 2005 – 6:51 pm
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 [...]
October 14, 2004 – 7:16 pm
mzdt and his excellent photographic skills are to blame for feeding my addiction to photography and feeling the urge to re-surrect pictures.
I am not without mercy however, so I’ve used Lj-cuts with handy titles to help group pictures from various travels.
Foreshadowing: Montenegro
