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The Three Ps - Prepare Prepare Prepare! When I finished university, like so many young adults, lots of my friends decided to go travelling. Not immediately, first of all they needed to save some money so they found jobs with a purpose - to get some cash. What did I do? I went straight to work, to a proper job. One that my university degree had prepared me for. I did not pass go and I did not collect $200. I had no great plans to travel and see the world. My family migra

One of my favourite pieces of poetry is by the US poet ee cummings; I carry your heart with me. I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it (anywhere I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) And it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you. Here is the deepest

I’m writing this blog on a train travelling between Venice and Munich. We’re just arriving into Innsbruck. The weather in Venice this morning was gorgeous. Beautiful sunshine and about 20 degrees. As we have been travelling north the sky has darkened and mysterious clouds of snow are hanging over the valleys like white fairy floss. Snow has fallen and flurries are still whirling in the air. Seventeen years ago I holidayed at Lake Como and then headed up to the Austrian