Travels inward, outward bound…
Travelling from the Netherlands to Wales and back again in Spring 2017.
The four weeks of this trip have been filled with all that I hoped for, and more than I expected. And now the time has come to return home. There is always a mixture of feelings at the end of a holiday and this time tinged with added pangs of sadness at saying farewell to [...]
The Welsh sojourn comes to an end. I am in Cardiff and just waved goodbye to David after he spent 3 days with us at the conclusion of the London season of Driftwood with Casus. He is staying on, rehearsing with the two troupes in Cardiff, before further touring in Europe. Rosie will take a side [...]
Where to begin... Here I sit in my cosy Welsh cottage after a late afternoon ramble with Rosie. This will be our home for the next week. We arrived yesterday after a one night stopover from where we picked up the car. And so to complete the picture of my oh-so-British sojourn I am scooting [...]
I find myself in Brussels on this delightful spring morning sitting in a charming square/piazza/whatever they call this in Flemish/French. There's a pretty fountain in the centre of what is a roundabout and there are many typical Belgian buildings with lacey iron work balustrades and dormer windows and cute little details on facades such as [...]
I arrived here in the Netherlands how many days ago? Right, 3 days ago! With a mixture of jetlag and holiday nonchalance I've already lost track of the time (such an overrated thing anyways). Getting to know that "university town" (my naive explanation) of Nijmegen, an excursion to "Tulip Town" and reunions with nearests and [...]
Sitting in a bar on the other side of border control, sipping a fine pilsner, feeling excited about being on another adventure beyond the antipodes. Also feeling a wee bit chastened as I was going to try no alcohol on this looooong haul flight... oh well, "bottoms up". I'm off to Amsterdam where I will [...]
Presence in Place 