Tag Archives: sculpture Quaint and historic buildings in pretty villages, set against impossibly green grass, and surrounded by snow capped mountains: Switzerland truly is a picture-perfect postcard! One of the many perks of living as an expat is that you meet people whose homes are in places you might never have heard of otherwise. Rapperswil-Jona is a municipality in […]  Bodrum, a port town – or city, depending who you talk to – on the Aegean in the southwest of Türkiye was not on my travel radar. But, it is on other people’s! Conde Nast calls it: the most glamorous hangout in the Mediterranean. According to AI, it is often: dubbed the “St. Tropez of […]  The Lot is the longest tributary river in France. Its source is high in the Cévennes, from where it winds around 485 kilometres (301 mi) in a mostly westerly direction across south-central France, flowing into the Garonne near Aiguillon in the southwest. From the Middle Ages until into the 20th century, the river was the […]  It is remote. And rugged. We were met with a mock war-dance: warriors sporting black body paint and carrying bamboo spears and arrows charged at us, while other villagers crowned in feathers danced and sang. Welcome to West Papua! The island of New Guinea has been populated for tens of thousands of years – mostly […]  I had forgotten how much I love Paris! It felt like forever since I had spent time in that wonderful city – and indeed, my last post from there dates to the summer of 2010 (see: Just another Monday Morning) . These days, I never know how I’m going to feel after squashy plane trips. […] |
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