The trip to Raja Ampat exceeded all expectations, such simplicity and beauty...

Our staff – family; they laugh and chatter all day long and are happiest when they can all be working together. It’s the best music ever...

Certainly not the worst place to spend lockdown…

It warms my heart that we are now growing our own flowers for the offerings...

I got to cuddle this pademelon, (a kind of a wallaby you only find here) because the woman I stayed with rescued and hand raised them...

Back in the Shire, cruising the Severn with our marvellous quirky Brit Tribe…

How wonderful to be the age when you no longer give a hoot (with by beloved friend Scott)...

Stayed at a 150 year old cottage on a sheep farm, and we got to feed the lambs...

Strongest, longest earthquake yet. We are all fine and nobody hurt, but our staff were terrified. Deep, ancient, cellular, memories evoked.

I now know what a volcano smells like; charcoal. The air is thick and heavy and ash is starting to settle, even although we are downwind…

What a day. Spent with four newly discovered aunts I haven't seen since I was about 8 years old... and many cousins.

Apparently crossing bridges to get to platforms is optional. I am on a train in the middle of Ceylon, and I can't find a cup of tea…

Stunning palm fringed beach, with sadly tons of trash in places. Ironically, the trash will go if tourism arrives, but so will the serenity.

She was petite, just a smidgen over 5 feet tall (and she may have exaggerated this). Her stature was small but her spirit was huge...

Our pool is now officially saltwater. Finally. All mermaids and mermen invited to make a splash...

Spider Town... because apparently the place is full of them... like lemons and lemonade they make the most of it and eat them…

The garden has surely taken steroids since I left, it's completely wild, untamed and bursting with life and colour…

Chefchaouene: bluer than blue, and cats galore…

A glorious Xmas with our new family in Portugal. And I was given the best news of the day: there are no calories in Europe…

Most romantic wedding ever; the courthouse ceremony was democratic and gender friendly, a gondola flotilla through the canals of Venice…