Peter Macinnis's Blog - Posts Tagged "travel"
Getting set to take flight
We are just about to invade Europe: Manchester, Chester, Haltwhistle, Loch Leven, Mull, Glasgow, London, via Paris and Zurich to Venice, on to Florence and Rome with lots of side trips and a deal of rail travel (more relaxing that driving). It's partly work, with looks at a few gold sites, museums, sites for action in several books, Hadrian's Wall and other stuff, but it's also partly just a breather. My day was made by getting a notice of my Educational Lending Rights payment and a copy of the Chinese edition of one of my children's books. We will dine well, and I will be happy.
As probably indicated somewhere else, I have a travel blog called McManly Mooches and Muses where you can read about my adventures, looking for Richard II's lost gold, prowling fences, walls and hedgerows, taming the odd kangaroo in Earl's Court, gathering atmospherics ion the fly in Zurich, linguini-shooting in the Veneto marshes. So bang goes my June and July!
As probably indicated somewhere else, I have a travel blog called McManly Mooches and Muses where you can read about my adventures, looking for Richard II's lost gold, prowling fences, walls and hedgerows, taming the odd kangaroo in Earl's Court, gathering atmospherics ion the fly in Zurich, linguini-shooting in the Veneto marshes. So bang goes my June and July!
Getting the body clock reset
I have been back in Australia about 60 hours, and I'm starting to get used to it.
My wife and I have been off chasing walls and fences all over the place from Chester to Hadrian's Wall to London to Rome and Pompeii for one new book that is still on the back-burner but taking shape. I have also been looking at waterfalls in Switzerland (that one's on the secret list for now), and at gold artefacts in Singapore and Europe, and looking at other sites in Italy for the still-projected 'Cornish Boy' series.
Now I am back in Oz, I will be settling down to sort out the final draft of 'Australian Backyard Naturalist', though the next month or so will see me also in New Zealand, around the Flinders Ranges of South Australia and Lake Eyre, in Brisbane (for the CBCA awards—for which I am short-listed) and in Coffs Harbour, all in the next two months, with a new book out on November 1.
It's going to be a busy rest of the year. I'm so glad I retired, because otherwise, I could never get through the work-load.
My wife and I have been off chasing walls and fences all over the place from Chester to Hadrian's Wall to London to Rome and Pompeii for one new book that is still on the back-burner but taking shape. I have also been looking at waterfalls in Switzerland (that one's on the secret list for now), and at gold artefacts in Singapore and Europe, and looking at other sites in Italy for the still-projected 'Cornish Boy' series.
Now I am back in Oz, I will be settling down to sort out the final draft of 'Australian Backyard Naturalist', though the next month or so will see me also in New Zealand, around the Flinders Ranges of South Australia and Lake Eyre, in Brisbane (for the CBCA awards—for which I am short-listed) and in Coffs Harbour, all in the next two months, with a new book out on November 1.
It's going to be a busy rest of the year. I'm so glad I retired, because otherwise, I could never get through the work-load.
