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Continue reading →: The Man From London
Hungary – 2007 – in French The best directors can make us look at cinema in a different way, the Hungarian, Béla Tarr is such a filmmaker. This story started life as an excellent Georges Simenon novel, published in 1934. On a cold, foggy night in the channel port of…
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Continue reading →: Krkonoše National ParkFour years ago I finished the TransCarpathians course in the mountains south of Wrocław. That last section of the Carpathians is the Tatras range. In this trip, I am continuing west initially to the range called the Giant mountains in English, but known here as the Krkonoše mountains. The area…
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Continue reading →: Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán
translated from the Spanish (Chile) by Sophie Hughes – Published 2024 The protagonist and narrator is Estela García, from the Chilean island of Chiloe but working in Santiago as a maid, or ‘nana’ to a wealthy family.I lived and worked in Santiago myself for five years and know of many…
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Continue reading →: Enough wetland forest – back in the high life again..
It didn’t take me long to realise that beautiful and unspoilt as they maybe, humid wetland forests are not my scene. The humidity and marshes encourage insects and birds, and notable amongst their number are mosquitoes. I had been alert in Scandinavia and rarely had a problem, with the mesh…
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Continue reading →: Estonia’s highest mountain & into LatviaI have been to the Baltic States before, in August of 1992, almost exactly a year after the three countries had declared independence. I was in my Land Rover Series 2A with four friends who went on to Minsk, St Petersburg, then returned home through Scandinavia. I can recall many…
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Continue reading →: Grimhaven by Charles Willeford
American Literature – Unpublished – Written circa 1984 Here is a book that was too dark to be published, something that immediately took my interest. Fortunately, it survives as a manuscript. I write this review of a rare and unpublished book with a spoiler as I guess that anyone who…
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Continue reading →: Helsinki and across the Gulf of FinlandAfter a few days in Nuuksio National Park I gathered my courage and headed into the city. I have a friend who lives in Helsinki, Richard, who was once a gap student for me in 2007 when I was Director of Sport at the Grange School in Santiago, Chile. Since…
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Continue reading →: Nuuksio National ParkA seamless transition between National Parks by way of a the nature reserve at Meiko Lake. Meiko Lake is the outdoor recreation area for the town of Kirkkonummi, a remarkably quiet suburb of Helsinki, just half an hour away from the heart of the city. There is a settled period…
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Where is Andy?
I was so much older then…
Quote of the Week
Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, ‘What road do I take?’ The cat asked, ‘Where do you want to go?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it really doesn’t matter, does it?’
Lewis Carroll
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