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Continue reading →: We Do Not Part by Han Kang
translated from the Korean by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris Kyungha, a writer suffering from migraines and stomach aches, receives an urgent communication from her friend, Inseon, who recently left her career as a documentary film maker to become a woodworker. Inseon has been hospitalised due to an injury…
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Continue reading →: From Serra da Lousã to Serra do AçorThe fine weather has been around all week though is due to come to an end tomorrow, with a rather more typically winter week of cloud and rain for the next few days. I have made my way north for a hundred kilometres or so to the town of Lousã…
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Continue reading →: Lago Azul on the Zêzere RiverOn Monday morning I moved a couple of hours to the west, to Lago Azul on the Zêzere river, a place that for 8 months a year would be crammed with visitors. It’s only 150 metres above sea level and its climate is affected by its proximity to the west…
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Continue reading →: God’s Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell
Most of Caldwell’s writing depicts the harsh realities of life in the American South in the Depression. This is one of his early novels, following the brilliant Tobacco Road. Both novels have sold more than ten million copies, though both were banned from public libraries and places of education in…
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Continue reading →: Serra da MalcataI’ve had two superb days on the banks of the River Côa in the Reserva Natural da Serra da Malcata, up at 800 metres above sea level and in excellent weather. Yesterday was warmer, up at around 16C, but with some cloud, and today the cloud has cleared, but a…
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Continue reading →: Into PortugalI took the autoroutes through France until Magescq, an hour south of Bordeaux which came in at just over 50 euros, and then decided to go more slowly through the Basque Pyrenees. Along the coast, Bayonne to San Sebastián, is where they are expensive, with frequent péages. My decision was…
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Continue reading →: The Villain’s Dance by Fiston Mwanza Mujila
translated from the French (D R Congo) by Roland Glasser Set in the 1990s in Mujila’s native Democratic Republic of Congo, this takes the form of the stories of three characters, and three storylines that alternate and come together in the last part of the book. It all takes place…
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Continue reading →: Roja’s On The Road Again..After just ten weeks in Cumbria I’m on the road again, heading south to the coastal Estrela mountains of central Portugal initially, then returning indirectly back north, through Galicia and Leon, on a different route to that of two years ago, then east across the Cantabrians and back to the…
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SafeReturnDoubtful is my alias. Rua is my fox red labrador pup, born 14 Feb 2026 and learning fast..
Where is Rua?
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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