TRAVEL HERE AND THERE

What is it about travel, life, and simple existence that can make you want to write? Or, for that matter, to read?

If that is you, welcome to Never a Straight Line. You have to be restless to read it but what is wrong with that?

Lucca: History, Culture, and Gelato

Lucca, Italy Lucca’s Allure There are few places in the world to which I return time[...]

Orkney, United Kingdom Visiting Orkney is an adventure, as there is a sense of going to[...]

Mogadishu, Somalia “Somalia will return one day,” said Burhaan. “Right now it is chaos. But remember,[...]

Alnwick, United Kingdom “When I last looked at a[...]

Alnwick, United Kingdom “It’s been a bad year,” said[...]

Winchester, United Kingdom “Why are you here?” I asked[...]

Troutbeck, United Kingdom “If the weather is like this,”[...]

Bodelwyddan, Clwyd, United Kingdom “If you want to hear[...]

Tripoli, Lebanon As an orthopaedic surgeon who has undertaken[...]

Glenridding, Lake District, United Kingdom I have done it,[...]

Setmurthy, Cumbria, United Kingdom I am uncertain why I[...]

Great Langdale Valley, Ambleside, United Kingdom I adore mountains.[...]