The Wait and the Move…
June 21 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 14 °C
Drive to wait
Wander to wait
Sit and wait
Amble down gangways to wait
Sit impossibly in the sky to wait
Until wait gives way to arrive…
The warmth of a Grecian summer awaits…
🧿🇬🇷🏛️
Doha
Jun 22–23 in Qatar ⋅ ☀️ 40 °C
Out of impossible desert
To the eye barren,
Emerges lights
Myriad, faking eternal,
Flashing and still.
In the industry that brings
Humans from all over the world
Close.
Water is not natural here,
ItRead more
Rhodes Poet Reunion in Athens
Jun 22–24, Adriatic Sea ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Had a lovely day hanging with Holly, who did the Rhodes retreat with myself and Lisa (and a bunch of other people who couldn’t make it back…this time).
We Agora’d, we Acropolised, we AcropolisRead more
Meteora
Jun 24–30 in Greece ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
We look into the words
We stare deeply as if they were
A magical pool of crystal light -
Transfixed.
We hope for inspired shapes to form
Out of an impossible alphabet.
We hope those words willRead more
Back in Athena
Jun 30–Jul 1 in Greece ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
The retreat is finished.
Ironically there are no words for the magic I experienced.
💖
Jane Austen Mania - Chawton
July 1 in England ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
It is a truth universally acknowledged that an English teacher wandering through Austen country on the 250th year of her birth must make visiting her home a priority.
Austen has been mostRead more
Who the fuck builds a Stonehenge?
July 2 in England
The song says it all…and more. Lol
https://open.spotify.com/track/35ay7VDBY355v1El…
Glastonbury Abbey
July 3 in England ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Loved this place so much.
Poem to follow…
Bath - Darcy and his attitude, seriously
July 4 in England ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
Love a good Abbey.
Love a good bath.
Love a good High Tea with Mr Darcy. (Darcy not supplied! Which novel am I in again?)
Bath (UK) inspiration…
The fawn coloured stone
Flanks every street.
It isRead more
Isle of Man - land of my People
Jul 5–7 in Isle of Man ⋅ 🌬 17 °C
What a beautiful magical place.
Saw the churches where grandmothers of the 1800s were christened and married.
Drove the Isle, enjoying the rolling hills and Peel Castle. So hard to capture it inRead more
Side Quest - Hadrian Had an Idea…
July 7 in England ⋅ 🌬 18 °C
A really long wall.
4.5 metres tall.
Keep them in,
Keep them out.
If they get in smash em dead.
Yay the Romans
Veni Vedi Murum Aedificavi
The Percy Arms
July 7 in England ⋅ 🌧 13 °C
A beautiful pub. Lindisfarne tomorrow.
Lindisfarne - The Holy Isle
July 8 in England ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Spent the day on the Holy Isle.
A slow day…bliss!
A moment at Loch Earn
July 9 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
On my way to Oban…Iona bound tomorrow. Last stop in the most epic drive, before I return the car in Edinburgh.
The landscape is so beautiful!
Iona Abbey and Nunnery
Jul 10–12 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
One of those places where you have amazing conversations…
A bus driver who lived in a van but misses home and is wondering if it is time to put down roots. He is concerned about sending his futureRead more
Edinburgh
Jul 12–14 in Scotland ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Oh golly big city vibes abound…
A tad overwhelming after my gentle jaunt through Great Britain.
The Scots are passionate people so I get it. Everyone I spoke to loved living in their city.
I couldRead more
Edinburgh Castle
July 14 in Scotland ⋅ 🌧 16 °C
I don’t normally enjoy tours, preferring to just explore.
Getting tickets to Edinburgh Castle in summer is a plan ahead type scenario…and I didn’t.
So I payed a ridiculous amount for a tourRead more
London Evening Vibes
July 14 in England ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Totally London Vibes. Cocktail time. 💖
And of course, the notebook and pen.
Capturing moments…
Princess Diana Memorial Fountain
July 15 in England ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
I remember the news that day. I was travelling with a boyfriend.
She was not the only important female figure to die that day…
London
July 15 in England ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
A day wandering around London.
Walked through Hyde Park to the Palace.
Then saw The Merry Wives of Windsor at The Globe. It continues to amaze me at how relevant Shakespeare is some 425 years +Read more
Paris est belle.
Jul 16–19 in France ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
I was told that Paris is dirty and the people are rude.
I found the streets no worse than Sydney and everyone I met was lovely!
The Paris Lit Up spoken word was much like our little group inRead more
Versailles
July 18 in France ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
A hunting lodge…are you serious?
Home…
July 19 in France ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
How fast can four weeks go?
Thanks Europe, it’s been amazing!






























































































































































TravelerGreat poem - I can’t WAIT for more!!