Today we were speed tourists. It might have been somewhat more leisurely had I remembered to turn left. But on we sailed until twenty minutes to the station became forty-five minutes. We arrived just as the train from Seville to Cadiz glided smoothly out of Santa Justa Estacion. We passed an hour in a frivolous …
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Going Somewhere
Apologies for the delay, finally, we have found some free wi-fi in Seville! The Sevillanas are going somewhere. They walk with swinging steps and an air of purpose. Hands in pockets, head down solitary wanderers, or couples stepping it out whilst managing to be deep in conversation. Even in small groups, gathered to chat, young …
Yorkshire curd tarts and soft oven bottoms
What is it about food that builds its reputation in your memory into a yearning? It’s pretty much possible to get most things English in Australia, where I now live – Marmite, McVities chocolate digestives, red Leicester cheese … But Yorkshire curd tarts, oven cakes (or soft oven bottoms as they are traditionally known) and …
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Taking the high roads
It cannot be denied that the banks of Loch Lomond are very bonny indeed. As you head up out of Glasgow to the highlands of Scotland, the road along the side of the loch is a taste of things to come. A combination of muted browns, burnt oranges and the deep plum of the silver …
The Ironies of Progress
“What ideas individuals attach to the word “Millennium” I know not; but I know that society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little if any misery and with intelligence and happiness improved an hundredfold; and no obstacle intervenes at this moment except ignorance to prevent …
A Celtic View
Visiting the Celtic countries is always a sobering experience for an English woman interested in history. The long and bloody past of the Irish has always hung heavy on me. I came to understand quite clearly, with the instinct that a teenager has for bull-shit, the meaning of the word propaganda. I knew I was …
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