Yesterday I got back from a blissful Italian holiday which started with a few days in Venice. So it's high time I bring you this piece I wrote the last time I was there, in 2019. I still think it's one of the best things I've ever written, and till now it's been hidden away… Continue reading Canalsick in Venice
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Why leave all this? Our repatriation story begins…
A family member visiting us in late spring was incredulous. 'But why would you leave all this? For Aberdeen?' By All This they meant the leafy suburbs of western Paris, with the city of lights just a twenty-minute train journey away, a spacious house and garden within walking distance of a prestigious, cosy school, all… Continue reading Why leave all this? Our repatriation story begins…