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Monday 10th October 2022 I woke up to rather heavy rain and had a mild panic about walking to my train at 11.25am. Fortunately the sun...
Cathie Rooyen
Oct 10, 20221 min read
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Snoozes and squirrels
Sunday 9th October 2022 The beauty about this travelling adventure of mine is that every place seems fantastic. Today on the...
Cathie Rooyen
Oct 9, 20222 min read
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Ssssaturday night..
Saturday 8th October 2022 I woke up to a bright sunny morning that I'd promised myself to stay sleeping to. I'd waken again at 3am and...
Cathie Rooyen
Oct 8, 20221 min read
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Transitions
Friday 7th October 2022 Today was a transit day. Woke up in Venice and go to sleep 1521km away in London. Isn't it a fantastic time to...
Cathie Rooyen
Oct 7, 20221 min read
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Water city
Thursday 6th October 2022 Venice-Venezia. A fascinating place that is buzzing with everything that is completely foreign to me. There's...
Cathie Rooyen
Oct 6, 20222 min read
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Train tripping Italian style
Wednesday 5 October 2023 I was delighted to have only made one trip to the bathroom in the night so when 7am came around I was ready for...
Cathie Rooyen
Oct 5, 20222 min read
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Full of Rome
Tuesday 4th October 2022 Rome. Sigh. After a very bumpy night I lay looking at my watch wondering if it had changed to local time of...
Cathie Rooyen
Oct 4, 20222 min read
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When in Rome....
Monday 3rd October 2022 I could start writing about my early start to the day,saying goodbye to the 'aye' which left my eye a little...
Cathie Rooyen
Oct 3, 20221 min read
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Bonnie Ciao
Sunday 2nd October 2022 Today was my last day in Scotland for a while and I woke late and the day flew by. I tried to slow it down by...
Cathie Rooyen
Oct 2, 20221 min read
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S-mooch
Saturday 1st October 2022 A new month starts. Number 10 of the year. One of my wildest years ever. So to celebrate, I had a mooch day....
Cathie Rooyen
Oct 1, 20221 min read
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Wet roads and old friends
Friday 30th September 2022 I woke up to some of the heaviest rain I've seen and was very glad that I hadn't planned any adventures on...
Cathie Rooyen
Sep 30, 20222 min read
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Colour and cards
Thursday 29th September 2022 I had a couple of things to do today and one of them was to colour my hair. The last time I had my big...
Cathie Rooyen
Sep 29, 20222 min read
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Train approaching
Wednesday 28th September 2022 Another 4am wake up and tossed around until 6ish. I tried so hard to only think of my crazy dreams so I...
Cathie Rooyen
Sep 28, 20222 min read
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Dreams and journeys
Tues 27th September 2022 All my excitement and reading of yesterday's book, 'Heidelberg to Rachan' made me sleep quite well. I even kept...
Cathie Rooyen
Sep 27, 20222 min read
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Echoes of the past
Monday 26th September 2022 I woke up feeling really excited. A part of me questioned the craziness about the excitement of a book. On my...
Cathie Rooyen
Sep 26, 20222 min read
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Bliss in the capital
Sunday 25th September Three months till Christmas. It feels like the whole year (and a bit) has been one constant Christmas mood for me...
Cathie Rooyen
Sep 25, 20222 min read
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Heritage walking
Saturday 24th September 2022 I saw my South African nephew today. I call him that because he's the last offspring to have left the...
Cathie Rooyen
Sep 24, 20222 min read
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Loch Lomond shores
Friday 23rd September 2022 I woke around 5am thinking I was hearing strange owls, turns out it might have been foxes. But I tossed and...
Cathie Rooyen
Sep 23, 20222 min read
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Graves and gravy
Thursday 22nd September 2022 Regular readers of this column might know that I love cemeteries. Yes, it's unusual but the more I say it,...
Cathie Rooyen
Sep 22, 20222 min read
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Put my new shoes on...
Wednesday 21st September 2022 After a bumpy night of tummy twirls, dreams and thinking about the taxman at 6am, I was relieved to finally...
Cathie Rooyen
Sep 21, 20222 min read
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