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The Black Sea to Amsterdam – a cruise through central Europe (part 2)
We arrived in Germany after going through the U-bend of the Schloegener Schlinge, with pretty villages at the water's edge...
Sabrina Humphrey
7 min read
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The Black Sea to Amsterdam – a cruise through central Europe (part 1)
Earlier this summer my husband, Marcus, and I, together with two friends, finally set off on a Covid-postponed cruise, flying to...
Sabrina Humphrey
7 min read
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Host a Ukrainian!
by Richard Pooley Our Ukrainians, Tanya and her 15-year old son, Daniel, have been in our house in Bath, UK, since 13 June. I was told...
Richard Pooley
8 min read
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A Bull’s Nose Ring – French Politics in 2022
Not long after my wife and I came to live in the village of Vayrac in south-west France in 2013 we set up an English-French group...
Richard Pooley
12 min read
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The statesman and the clown
Until very recently, the name Volodymyr Zelensky was probably unknown to most people outside Eastern Europe. How that has changed.
Michael Carberry
6 min read
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