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Toronto to Carcassonne
Flying to London, then on to Carcassonne by rail, using the overnight service from Paris to Toulouse.
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Fathers… natural, step and grand
I last saw my father in 1950, when I was six. Over the last couple of years I have found out that he lived most of his life since then…
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My Scariest Road Trip
My scariest road trip was late in the afternoon of Easter Saturday in April, 1999. Roland Sewell and I had just been up to the Albanian border to bring relief to…
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My Tuscan Holiday in 2012
On Thursday evening, 11 October 2012, Doe and I, together with our friends Doug and Marilyn, started our holiday in the beautiful town of Anghiari in Tuscany, Italy.
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Thoughts While Preparing the Turkey
Christmas 1948 The first Christmas I remember was in 1948, when my mother and I were living in Toronto. Mother, who had been a Salvation Army officer in England before…
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This Spectr’d Isle
My mother has been to see me only a couple of times since she died The last time she visited she came with my grandmother, who died in 1954. Now…
