The Wait and the Move…
21. Juni 2025 in Australien ⋅ 🌙 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
22.–23. Juni 2025 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,
ItWeiterlesen
Rhodes Poet Reunion in Athens
22.–24. Juni 2025, 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 AcropolisWeiterlesen
Meteora
24.–30. Juni 2025 in Griechenland ⋅ ☀️ 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 willWeiterlesen
Back in Athena
30. Juni–1. Juli 2025 in Griechenland ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
The retreat is finished.
Ironically there are no words for the magic I experienced.
💖
Jane Austen Mania - Chawton
1. Juli 2025 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 mostWeiterlesen
Who the fuck builds a Stonehenge?
2. Juli 2025 in England
The song says it all…and more. Lol
https://open.spotify.com/track/35ay7VDBY355v1El…
Glastonbury Abbey
3. Juli 2025 in England ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Loved this place so much.
Poem to follow…
Bath - Darcy and his attitude, seriously
4. Juli 2025 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 isWeiterlesen
Isle of Man - land of my People
5.–7. Juli 2025 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 inWeiterlesen
Side Quest - Hadrian Had an Idea…
7. Juli 2025 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
7. Juli 2025 in England ⋅ 🌧 13 °C
A beautiful pub. Lindisfarne tomorrow.
Lindisfarne - The Holy Isle
8. Juli 2025 in England ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Spent the day on the Holy Isle.
A slow day…bliss!
A moment at Loch Earn
9. Juli 2025 in Schottland ⋅ ☁️ 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
10.–12. Juli 2025 in Schottland ⋅ ☁️ 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 futureWeiterlesen
Edinburgh
12.–14. Juli 2025 in Schottland ⋅ ⛅ 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 couldWeiterlesen
Edinburgh Castle
14. Juli 2025 in Schottland ⋅ 🌧 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 tourWeiterlesen
London Evening Vibes
14. Juli 2025 in England ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Totally London Vibes. Cocktail time. 💖
And of course, the notebook and pen.
Capturing moments…
Princess Diana Memorial Fountain
15. Juli 2025 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
15. Juli 2025 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 +Weiterlesen
Paris est belle.
16.–19. Juli 2025 in Frankreich ⋅ ☁️ 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 inWeiterlesen
Versailles
18. Juli 2025 in Frankreich ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
A hunting lodge…are you serious?
Home…
19. Juli 2025 in Frankreich ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
How fast can four weeks go?
Thanks Europe, it’s been amazing!






























































































































































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