Wandering the world

A little bit of background📝 This post is part of a series on the Great Girls' Adventure of 2015. My daughter and I travelled to Türkiye, Greece and Romania. This post is on our Greek wanderings. There are posts on our Türkiye and Romania wanderings as well. Our inaugural Great Girls' Adventure saw us away for two weeks in October 2015, when my daughter, referred to in my posts as E, was just shy of her 14th birthday. This trip was special as it was just the two of us and a

A little bit of background📝 This post is part of a series on the Great Girls' Adventure of 2015. My daughter and I travelled to Türkiye, Greece and Romania. Each country on our adventure has its own post. Our Greece wanderings are here, and our sojourn to Romania here . Our inaugural Great Girls' Adventure took place in October 2015, when my daughter - referred to in my posts as E - was just shy of her 14th birthday. This trip was special as it was just the two of us and o

A little bit of background📝 I've written posts on the Manchester conference  that I presented at in 2011 and my post-conference London wanderings.  I was away from home for two weeks on that trip: the conference, seven days in London staying with a friend, and a solo sojourn to Europe for three nights and four days. I bought a Eurostar package for the Brussels trip that included the return train journey from London to Brussels and hotel accommodation. The Eurostar packages a

A little bit of background📝 We live in the southern hemisphere, in a part of Australia where it never snows. Christmas is summer for us, hot and humid, like it is for a good portion of the year. I'd had a long-held dream to have a proper winter experience , complete with heavy snow and a white Christmas. I’d also always wanted to visit Chicago as the lake and the city architecture fascinated me, and, like a lot of travellers, NYC was on my bucket list. This post is the fir