DougieJun 20, 20222 minMust all good things come to an end? For now ...We begin our long journey back to Australia tomorrow -- north to Paris by train then two flights back to the big southern island. So here...
DougieJun 17, 20221 minSome days there is only one way to be ...The chirping of cicadas in 70 year old olive trees is the only sound to disturb the peace. Do cicadas chirp? I am too hot to care. The...
DougieJun 15, 20221 minDitch the ego. Just write.You get up early on a day when the breeze has dropped and it's twenty-seven or twenty-eight degrees by breakfast. And your brother asks...
DougieJun 12, 20221 minTrigger Alert -- nearly naked Scottish guy almost smilesMy brother warned me that life in the Trullo would be rustic ... that's the word he used. Rustic. Did he mention it would be rustic and...
DougieJun 11, 20221 minA kitten came looking for breakfastI sat in the shade of a Trullo. A kitten came calling for breakfast. Then mum came. Then they came. Then later we wandered down long...
DougieJun 10, 20222 minA short and simple tale. Two brothers meet.My younger brother provides my verifiable first memory. In a taxi. In the rain. In Aberdeen. I was -- what? -- three and a half years old...