How Travel Changed My Life

I am thrilled to have appeared in Outwit Trade’s feature on how travel enriches your life. For me, travel changed my life. It happened in 1994. Newly divorced and single, I wanted to get away, but had no-one to go on holiday with. Rather than sitting alone on a beach like Johnny No Mates, IContinue reading “How Travel Changed My Life”

Lockdown Life – How The Greatest Rock Climber in the Alps was Saved by the Hunter King & a Poacher

We are now in our third month of lockdown in a tiny, deserted ski resort in Monte Rosa, Northern Italy. One of the highlights of lockdown life has been wildlife sightings in deserted cities and boy, do I have a treat for you! Here in Staffal, Mother Nature has bestowed upon us some very rareContinue reading “Lockdown Life – How The Greatest Rock Climber in the Alps was Saved by the Hunter King & a Poacher”

Our First Taste of Freedom on Star Wars Day!

Star Wars Day (May the Fourth Be With You!) had special significance for us this year. It was the day that the coronavirus lockdown in Italy was relaxed to the extent that we are allowed to go Out-Out. As in Out Properly. On a jaunt. We can now walk and exercise outside and drive togetherContinue reading “Our First Taste of Freedom on Star Wars Day!”

What I Love About Being A Fiftysomething

If you haven’t grown up by age 50, you don’t have to. Mark Twain might have said that. He certainly said, “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” This interview was conducted by Sam from Loving The Fiftysomething. – Can I ask you to tell us aContinue reading “What I Love About Being A Fiftysomething”