Taken by water

A mythical voyage

My recent writings, the challenge towrite 50,00 words, led me to some curious places… I looked at the voyages of St Brendan the navigator, and Nicholas of Lynn St. Brendan is known far more widely, beyond Ireland, because of his voyage from Europe across the Atlantic; many believe he actually reached North America, although there’s […]

More

Taken by water

Having been a water baby myself, and much of my childhood taken up in, on or by the water, by rivers and streams and the sea, I love and yet am wary of the element. I have always been safe, thank goodness, and perhaps because I’m not really a risk taker, and also the slow-moving […]

More

Across the Thames

We were on the south side of  the Thames and looking across he river we could see St Paul’s Cathedral beneath a darkening sky. There is a huge amount of building going on the north side of the Thames, and the crane on the right of the picture is only one of many. We saw […]

More