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Porto, Portugal: A Guide…🌉
‘Life is filled with reasons to BELIEVE.’ So said the sign on the baby blue door near the Ribeira, and so says me. My favourite city to date? In the same way that ‘what is your favourite book?’ is an… Continue reading
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What’s it all about, Italy?
“I’m so homesick for Italy that when I write about it it has that something about it that you only get in a love letter” (Hemingway to James Gable, 3 March 1919). Was it at age 7, during a boat… Continue reading
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From Porto, with love💙
The way the water sparkled never quite left me. And I’m quite sure it never will. Porto, Portugal. The place I call ‘home’ even though it isn’t. The gorgeously gloomy city that stole my heart the moment I stepped off… Continue reading
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What I learned as an au pair…🇮🇹
‘Au pair’, as defined by the OED, is ‘a young foreign person. This person is typically a woman who helps with housework and childcare in exchange for board and lodging’. This OED definition is like all others; it does not… Continue reading
Writings of a Dreamer 