Europe
Just call me Poppins – Scarlet Poppins
Flying into Madrid and with my instructions clamped tightly in my hand I negotiated passport control, the metro and the Cercanias train system to arrive at my destination for the next week . Senorio de Illescas is a dormitory town which lies bang in between Madrid...
Thinking of Home
What constitutes home? Is it where you were born or raised? Is it where your family or friends live? Is it bounded by bricks and mortar or is it simply where you are at now? Over the last four years I have lived in a variety of houses and flats, depending in many...
Scarlet and the Golfers
Scarlet and the Golfers The Cast: Snow White – played by Scarlet Jones The Seven Dwarfs – following the tradition of my blog they have been given alibis – which will also avoid the little problem of who should be allocated the name of Dopey. Golfer Number 1 The...
Cascais Cuisine
I flew back into Lisboa airport, caught the by now familiar Aeroport Bus to the city centre and then due to road works I had to yomp for twenty five minutes to the railway station. Boy, was I glad that by now I had managed to shed all of the books that I had brought...
House-sitting in the Mountains
After saying our goodbyes, I left BF at Lisbon airport and set off for the next leg of my adventure. I was to look after a house in the Italian mountains. After a long day’s travel and a detour via a supermarket I finally arrived at my destination and settled in...
Not all plans go as planned
I left Portugal and headed off on my own, waving goodbye to BF at the airport. I will bring you up to date on my next set of adventures in a future post but for now please humour me as I jump forward in time to more recent events. After four weeks in mainland Europe...
8. Can you ever be too old?
This article was written whilst I was in Portugal right at the very beginning of my travel adventures and it was an occasional reoccurring theme over the next few years - thanks in part to the emotional baggage that I was dragging along with...
7. Lagos, Portugal
We arrived in Lagos for our break from the work exchange scheme but finding our room for the night took on a whole new direction when deep inside the labyrinthine back streets and alleys which make up Lagos’ old town, my friend´s mobile died. We had been making...
6. A work exchange in the Algarve
‘We shwim with the nature here. If you would like to shwim with the nature too with no clothes on then that is all right by us’. Those rather worrying words were spoken by our host who had just picked us up in his car from the side of a deserted lane in the middle of...
5. Lisbon and my first Music Festival
We were very lucky to find accommodation in an AirBnB with Guida in her apartment in Lisbon. She lived just ten minutes walk from the Optimus Alive Music Festival venue but she provided us with much more than just beds for the night. Before we got...