This is what we came for, really. Not the big attraction for the younger traveller. (Ssh. Don’t tell.) More a bit of wandering, watching, and soaking it up. The things that parents struggle for and, sometimes, the child permits. Paris, I mean. You would hope so. I thought about A is for atmosphere, and decided …
Category archives: Moments
O is for observation
I had forgotten the potential for people watching that travel abroad provides. How, I’m not quite sure. But there we were, abroad. And there they were: people. People. Just doing their thing. Families, mostly, that I watched. Pushchairs and backpacks, carrier bags of increasing sizes advertising the park we were visiting that day. And yet. …
N is for new (experiences)
I had forgotten about the new. Going back to a city I knew, even in a few small areas, I had forgotten to expect the new as well. Staying in someone else’s flat for a week, I realised I had to learn the neighbourhood too – from scratch. Now living in the same place for …
I is for illness
It used to happen in the old world of office work. It happened to others too. Stop working, go on holiday, get ill. Wait weeks and months for that break…and see a portion of it disappear. I didn’t have it so bad. Sometimes it would be a bad cold that would descend for the trip, …
Interlude 2: is inspiration a found item?
We long for it to be. We believe there is a pearl of great price, whatever other merchants have told us. We hear the story of Harry Potter, walking fully fledged into the imagination of the author, and take our own train journeys, on the look out for a lone character thumbing a lift. We …
Continue reading “Interlude 2: is inspiration a found item?”