Wandering the world

I'd not heard of the author before I picked up The Russian doll at my local library. Marina Palmer is the pseudonym that British writer, Imogen Robertson, uses for her solo outings. Robertson has a degree in German and Russian and is a former film, television and radio director. She has co-written novels with a former Labour Deputy Leader, a screenwriter, and with Wilbur Smith. Awesome! I'll read anything that hints at corruption, spy shenanigans, or all-round dodgy stuff! Th

A little bit of background📝 This post is part of a series that documents our 1996 adventure, the first time we'd been further afield than Australia and New Zealand. I wrote the post in 2024, some 28 years after the experience, based on the [print] journal I kept at the time and my memories and recollections. As with all my travel posts, they are a journal of sorts, documenting my experience of travel, rather than reading as a travel guide. Some of the information may be out

A little bit of background📝 The year is 1996. My husband [W] and I, aged 25, are on our first ever bus tour. The tour was part of our 6-week first ever world wandering. The trip was the culmination of years of dreaming and 12 months of planning and saving. I wrote this post in 2024 using my memories to guide me and the journal I kept at the time. This post is as much about documenting our experience as it is looking back in time to travel in the 1990s, before the days of Goo

I had not heard of British author, Margie Orford, before I picked up her novel, The eye of the beholder, at my local library. Orford was born in London but raised in Namibia and South Africa. She is the author of the Clare Hart detective series set in Cape Town. There is not a lot to go by in the book's blurb and I quite liked that I went into it without too many expectations. Three women are central to the story - Cora, her daughter, Freya, and Angel - and they are entwined