Wandering the world

A little bit of background📝 The subtitle of this post could be "part 2" as it documents my second trip to London in 2022 as part of the job I was in at the time as the Global Education Manager for an international travel assistance company. When I mean by travel assistance is helping travellers with insurance policies in emergency situations when they call the number in their policy for help. The organisation I worked for is owned by a large insurance firm and it provides tr

A gap in my travel experience resume🚫 There is a gap of almost three years between the London trip of this post and my last travel experience, to present my PhD research at a conference at Southern Utah University in June 2019. Of course I had no idea when I travelled to Utah that a global pandemic was coming. How could anyone have conceived of such a thing? I've called my month-long stint in London in 2022 "post-pandemic", but I'm not sure whether 2022 could be considered

A little bit of background📝 This post documents the six weeks I spent in London in 2023 during my time as the Global Education Manager for an international travel assistance company. The organisation I worked for is owned by a large insurance firm. The team provides travel assistance to policyholders from the parent company and a number of other insurers and organisations. I had left academia in May 2021 and worked in the newly-created role until August 2023. What a wild rid

British author, Kate Atkinson, can do no wrong in my eyes. I've read all of her books but have only reviewed her 2022 historical fiction, Shrines of gaiety , and her collection of short stories so far on my blog. I fell in love with Atkinson's writing with my first read, Behind the scenes at the museum, published in 1995. Her books are superbly British, full of vivid characters, and simply beautifully written. The Jackson Brodie books are among by favourite British crime nov