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Some photos from Dubrovnik yesterday and today. Morning glory and oleander.
Autobiography
Dubrovnik
This is my first time in Dubrovnik, but not my first connection with it. Many years ago, when I had just finished university, I had a boyfriend who was a disaster in many ways. But it took me a long time to see it, but that’s another story. He was an amateur archaeologist and I […]Read Post ›
Really?
A great little book -humour, philosophy, romance, food. What more can you want in a novel?It just reminded me of a holiday we had in France many years ago, in 1989 in fact, when en route to the south we stayed one night in a Campanile in Vendome. There was no restaurant, so we asked […]Read Post ›
Professor Aleksander Korzeniowski
Yesterday this lovely man, my father-in-law would have been 100 years old. He actually died almost a quarter of a century ago, though he did live to see in this millennium. I haven’t ever written a lot about him, but today I thought I would make up a little for lost time. I first met […]Read Post ›
Palermo 4.
Would you Adam and Eve it? A few more glimpses of our holiday. We were recommended a visit to the Norman Palace. A ninth century building subsumed into a somewhat newer one. It took us some time to find it though it is relatively near to where we are staying. We did find the cathedral […]Read Post ›
Out of my comfort zone
yet again. Palermo 3 Yesterday, May the first, Labour Day, was a very variable day. It started off well. We went to the local market – very crowded and noisy; lots of people enjoying barbecues of fish and round spiral sausages. The aroma of food grilling, mixed with the scents of heat soaked people and […]Read Post ›
Palermo
Or Palmero, as yesterday’s stewardess insisted on calling it. Here we are, glorious warm mild breezy weather, (though likely to change as my ever optimistic!!! husband would have me believe.) We had one breakfast today in a very local cafe and then immediately went in search of the next. We got to the theatre square […]Read Post ›
Katyń
Not to be forgotten As I write this on Sunday afternoon, this year’s Remembrance Ceremony is drawing to a close. I was sorry not to be able to go, as I have been most years since 1978, when I went for the first time,. Jacek and I went together with my mother and a friend […]Read Post ›
Family Album 4 Menaggio 2003
Marysia is ten years old. How did that happen? She is wearing a teeshirt, that belonged to her brother or sister which I brought back from Salamanca in 1992. It has worn well. I think it lasted many years after that. We are in Menaggio by Lake Como which happens to be one of my […]Read Post ›
Family Album 3: Happy 2nd Anniversary, Marysia and Alex!
On this day, two years ago our youngest daughter got married to her lovely young man. We were all thrilled by the event, but spent the run up to it slightly concerned that we would have to make some uplifting speeches. We worked quite hard on them, and when I found them today I thought […]Read Post ›
Life Through Basia's Eyes 