Wandering the world

I'd been keen to give Ruth Ware's books a go for ages, and was excited to find her latest outing, The it girl, at my local library. British authors of dark tales are totally my jam, and I was intrigued by The it girl because of its academic setting. I've also read another of Ware's novels. My review is posted here. The It girl | Published July 2022 | Read November 2023 The 'it girl' of the title is April Coutts-Cliveden, a rich, posh, flamboyant student at a fictional Oxfo

A little bit of background📝 This post is part of the series on our first ever world wandering, a six-week trip to LA, London, Berlin, Europe on a bus tour, and a road trip around England, Scotland and Wales. The post has been written in retrospect, almost 30 years after the trip, from the journal I wrote at the time and from my memories. The first in the series is my post is on our LA stopover  and the second is on our London taster. These posts give good background on how w

A little bit of background 📝 I am writing this post in 2023, 27 years after our [W and me] first big adventure beyond Australian and New Zealand shores. I've kept the journals our travels, typed on an electric typewriter and bound in a book, complete with ticket stubs, pictures from travel brochures, and other printed records of the trip. I hope you find it interesting reading, both for the throwback to travelling in a different time and for the world wanderings themselves.

A little bit of background 📝 I am writing this post in 2023, 27 years after our [W and me] first big adventure beyond Australian [and New Zealand] shores. I've kept the journals our travels, typed on an electric typewriter and bound in a book, complete with ticket stubs, pictures from travel brochures, and other printed records of the trip. I hope you find it interesting reading, both for the throwback to travelling in a different time and for the world wanderings themselves