#Writer’sTravelogueSeries – 10 Tips For Keeping a Travel Journal (Without It Taking Over Your Trip!)

Are the first few pages of your travel journals filled with joy and excitement? Do the notes get thinner and more sparse? Then, do they stop completely a few days before you go home? For my second post in my regular #Writer’sTravelogueSeries on Marcia Meara’s The Write Stuff blog, I am looking at something veryContinue reading “#Writer’sTravelogueSeries – 10 Tips For Keeping a Travel Journal (Without It Taking Over Your Trip!)”

Matera: A Stroll Through Italy’s Stone Age City

I have discovered a new Pan Tone; Magenta di Matera. It relates to the colour of my face after scaling the Gravina gorge to the ancient City of Matera in a temperature of 28°C (83°F).

Magical Matera: Italy’s 9,000-Year-Old Cave City

Sometimes, a place you visit really gets into your heart. That happened to me in Hawai’i. There, they call it ‘aloha’.

Paestum, Italy – Sun, Sea & A City from 500 BC

As ever, it was a long and winding road to Paestum – a beach resort with the added charm of a Greek city and three Doric temples, dating back to 500 BC.