Travel Thursday: Amsterdam, August 2012

Amsterdam: August 2012 A warm Wednesday afternoon outside the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam. A queue of kids from a Jewish school sat cross-legged and chorused hauntingly in Hebrew as dusk fell and Angelus bells bonged from a nearby steeple. We waited in the eerie half light for admittance to the attic where dreams lived and [...]

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Travel Thursday: Florence, August 2014

I started this on Instagram a few weeks ago and I'm really enjoying sharing little vignettes from various places I've been over the years for work or pleasure. Whenever I've travelled somewhere for work I've travelled with a story in mind, but often the stories I share afterwards with friends and family are never written down [...]

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