Photo Credit - @edzionmedia In her wide smiling face I saw defiance and intelligence. My heart was snared and I didn't know it then but...

(Photo credit - 'The British Tribe next door' Channel 4 ) 'The British Tribe next door' has been causing a stir in the British media over...

( Photo Credit - Babylonstoren) ' Sounds embedded in silence like snails whorled in stone. Sounds that ancient: shepherds' voices rising...

"For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle upon a thousand hills ..." Psalm 50:10 ESV I can't help myself, I know I live in...

Photo Credit - Getty The Telegraph Photo Credit - Freeman Patterson 'The rising sun makes no sound. As day breaks on the Grand...

Vikki woke early, nervous and excited. Today was the big day. In a few hours we would driving down South, on our way to sign the...

Our little Easter break skiing in the Alps was over. We had enjoyed the snow and now we were ready for the sunshine. The winter seemed to...

Let me continue the story .... The house in France was chosen. The house in England had a buyer. It was all supposed to be in place for...

Living in France is something I have had on my wish list for years, possibly decades. I've lived in 6 countries so far ... Zimbabwe,...

Sit down, pour yourself a cup of tea, get yourself comfortable and read on as I tell you a story set in a distant land of snow capped...

A little video clip of Sweden in the Spring went viral last week. It was brilliant because it arrived just in time for the Spring...

As I have added years to my life I find myself getting less excited about birthdays, especially my own which hits in the gloomiest month...

Every year Burns night comes and goes and every year I feel a hint of envy that I am not in Scotland.The magical landscape of the...

" To inquire into the intricacies of a distant landscape, then, is to provoke thoughts about one’s own interior landscape, and the...

At the end of 2003, the beginning of 2004, I spent New Year's eve in Jerusalem. It was an unusual way to spend such a significant turning...

" Travel lays the table for the feast you enjoy sitting still back home. Stillness is the end point of any trip; it's the way you convert...

Many moons ago I decided to add some spice to my life in the cold Autumnal months and escape my little English island to go and climb an...

' Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. ' Proverbs 13:12 Today I had scheduled myself to write...

I scheduled in my diary to write about Capetown this week. I can't remember why I thought this would be a good time to reflect on South...

As Kenya is in the news today with regards to its questionable recent elections, it triggered a few memories that I thought I'd share...