Exploring a Bigger World

Our tour guide to go round the Kremlin was Max.  His favourite 20th century Russian leader was Gorbachev.  Max had…

Today we drove through the Moscow suburbs to Suzdal.  The traffic in Moscow is bad.  I noticed this coming from…

There is an efficiency and kindness about Russians. The Russians in Moscow appear not to be a physically large race. …

What haven’t I told you yet about Colorado?   I didn’t tell you they have drug shops where you can…

The Colorado trip is a different kind of holiday for me because I am a house guest.  My host and…

I have been sick.  It meant I had a little break from my blog.  It was the first time.  Normally…

Now I am sixty. I wrote this when I was fifty eight.   https://hazeldurbridge.com/evaluating-myself-at-sixty/   I had a little google…

    I went to Lisbon on my own for my 60th birthday.  To do that was huge.  As well…

On Saturday I went on a guided tour of Highgate cemetery https://highgatecemetery.org/visit You can’t book tickets at the week-end, but…

  I came to El Salvador with trepidation fuelled by tales of bandits and expecting a degree of hostility towards…

Nassau Bahamas is hot.  The breeze blows through the palm trees and the sea that laps at the shore is…

  I have just come back from a holiday where I spent 2 weeks in Orlando, visiting the theme parks….