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Looping the Glen.
Full circle. We’ve come full circle. Trekking has been my family’s only past time: it’s understandable if, like homing pigeons, we felt its call, the urge to get up and go, shoulder the pack and get out early, when it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Scotland, UK
Tagged Affric, Alba, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Caledonian, Caledonian forest, David Williams, Deer, Dudley Marjoribanks, Glen, Glen Affric, Highlands, Hiking, Inequality, Isolation, Lake, Land ownership, Loch, Lodge, MacRae, Mountains, Pippa Middleton, Refuge, Ross, Scot pine, Scotland, Snow, Stag, Strawberry cottage, Travel, Trekking, UK, Winter
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Decameron.
Dico adunque che già erano gli anni della fruttifera incarnazione del Figliuolo di Dio al numero pervenuti di milletrecentoquarantotto, quando nella egregia città di Fiorenza, oltre a ogn’altra italica bellissima, pervenne la mortifera pestilenza: la quale, per operazion de’ corpi … Continue reading
Posted in Day 0, Decameron, Odd ones out
Tagged 11th novella, 1348, Black Death, Boccaccio, Buen Retiro, Covid, Covid-19, Decameron, Fiammetta, Florence, Isolation, Italy, Literature, Lockdown, Novel coronavirus, Novella, Novellas, Pandemic, Plague, Santa Maria Novella, Self isolation, Story, Storytelling, Ten days, Toscana, Tuscany, Writing
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