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Category Archives: 20a Europe
Not the Acropolis
On 30th Oct it was exactly one month before Ruby flew into Cairo to meet us, and the week’s to-do list was intimidating: collect the new carnet from the SA Embassy in Athens, book the Big Green Truck on a … Continue reading
A Crateful of Pomegranates
There was no denying it. Sampson was in love. Can your husband have an affair with a dog? Granted, Monte was a darling. Young, energetic, doe-eyed, silky-haired and constantly adoring – what’s not to love? So we went back to the lovely … Continue reading
Posted in 20a Europe
Tagged #CanyouseeMEnow, #M.E.too, #metoo, #MillionsMissing, Alison Hunter, deaths from ME, Dr Dimitri Karamaridis, Dr Simon Wessely, Emily Collingridge, history of ME/CFS, Itea Greece, Lynn Gilderdale, Margaret Williams, Martin Lev, Merryn Crofts, Nancy Klimas, PACE trial, Sophia Mirza, travelling with M.E., Vanessa Li
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Pantokrator
Somehow, between Montenegro and Greece, it seemed all ideas of giving Monte away to some kind people had evaporated. We crossed into the Hellenic peninsula on Sampson’s 51st birthday and I think he felt the universe had given him a … Continue reading
We Are Not Europe
You are going to have to bear with me for the next few blogs. I usually write my most vivid impressions down as we’re going along, and polish them up for consumption later, but from November to February I was … Continue reading
Posted in 20a Europe
Tagged Bay of Kotor, Bosnia, Crna Gora, DJ Black Coffee, Dubrovnik, Montenegrin border, Montenegro, travelling with M.E.
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Turning the Corner
It’s been so long since I’ve posted a blog, not because I’ve been too lazy or too busy, but because I’ve been too unwell. One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to be more upfront and unapologetic about the effects … Continue reading
We Interrupt This Blog To Bring You….
Happy New Year from the Sampson family. If you would like to understand why I keep falling behind with this blog, what ‘relapse’ means to me and how I become too weak to write, please join us in the Big … Continue reading
Fashion Week
The day we arrived in Milan, we drove straight in to the NE area of Padova and found our friend Luca’s street quite easily, but identifying his apartment was another matter. After I’d walked up and down a few times … Continue reading
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Tagged #ThisIsEurope!, Ada's dolls, Legends of Liberia, Luca Bai Varaschini, Milan, Peter Pinney, Share'n'Go
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Punk à Chat
Back to the plot. So… instead of our planned Grand Tour of the ancient capitals of Europe, meandering at leisure through the Mediterranean summer, we spent six weeks in a garage. A garage in an industrial area about half an … Continue reading
Canary in a Coal Mine
(Forgive me – just one more detour before we resolve the cliffhanger…) A week after we arrived back in Spain, I woke up at 1am in the morning and couldn’t work out what was happening. My head seemed to be … Continue reading