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    Birds of a Feather Press
    Carol Duval
    • May 16, 2020
    • 1 min

    Birds of a Feather Press

    Podcast (Part 1) Author Interview
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    Trying Lives: A House Sitter's Tale
    Carol Duval
    • May 10, 2019
    • 2 min

    Trying Lives: A House Sitter's Tale

    Trying Lives: A House Sitter's Tale. This book tells the stories of house sits and swaps across four years and five countries.
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    Celebrating Sydney
    Carol Duval
    • Apr 23, 2019
    • 1 min

    Celebrating Sydney

    We're lucky to live so close to Sydney's beautiful harbour. Down the road at Balls Head, we have the Coal Loader, now reinvented as a...
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    Christmas Cheer
    Carol Duval
    • Dec 30, 2018
    • 2 min

    Christmas Cheer

    To get us right into the winter holiday spirit, we spent an unexpectedly joyful day at the Weald and Downland Living Museum which...
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    Yorkshire - Leeds and Harrogate
    Carol Duval
    • Dec 1, 2018
    • 1 min

    Yorkshire - Leeds and Harrogate

    23rd November 2018 Harrogate—A bit like a northern Arundel but with department stores. Lovely Christmas lights and festive shop windows....
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    Cities, Towns and Villages of the South Downs
    Carol Duval
    • Nov 28, 2018
    • 3 min

    Cities, Towns and Villages of the South Downs

    Chichester — Nearest to 'home' and so our local shopping town. Cathedral, ancient walls, Roman Museum, buzzing shops—what’s not to love?...
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    Walking the Downs
    Carol Duval
    • Nov 1, 2018
    • 2 min

    Walking the Downs

    Elaine left a very handy and accurately written booklet called Octagon Walks outlining with eight walks that we’re working through and...
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    Falling for the South Downs
    Carol Duval
    • Oct 31, 2018
    • 3 min

    Falling for the South Downs

    What a change! From precarious mountain roads, thick forests and misty views of the Pyrenees to the hedged country lanes and green/golds...
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    Farewell to France—With a Couple of Friends
    Carol Duval
    • Oct 16, 2018
    • 4 min

    Farewell to France—With a Couple of Friends

    After nearly seven weeks in La Forge del Mitg, friends Avis and Peter Gunn shared our final few days and gave us a chance to revisit some...
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    Coping with Catalonia
    Carol Duval
    • Oct 4, 2018
    • 3 min

    Coping with Catalonia

    A recent email from my school friend Jenny (North Sydney Girls) brought a sigh of relief with her recounting of the time she was...
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    Girona and the Catalunya Hinterland
    Carol Duval
    • Sep 30, 2018
    • 3 min

    Girona and the Catalunya Hinterland

    Elaine had told us that if we were beginning to get cabin fever in La Forge del Mitg we should spend a couple of days in Girona—Spain’s...
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    Back to the Costa Brava
    Carol Duval
    • Sep 21, 2018
    • 2 min

    Back to the Costa Brava

    It has certainly been a few years from when we took a few days out from travelling on our Eurail passes around Europe. The beaches are...
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    Céret and Picasso
    Carol Duval
    • Sep 13, 2018
    • 1 min

    Céret and Picasso

    After a few days' driving from Paris to our new exchange home in the Pyrenees Orientale we've started to explore this fascinating area....
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    Figueres and Dalí
    Carol Duval
    • Sep 11, 2018
    • 1 min

    Figueres and Dalí

    More art and more crowds but at least more bearable than in Barcelona—that is, the Dalí Museum and Theatre in Figueres. We spent nearly...
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    The Spirit of Catalonia
    Carol Duval
    • Sep 8, 2018
    • 2 min

    The Spirit of Catalonia

    One of the unexpected discoveries about living here is the whole Catalonian experience. We should have known or at least investigated...
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    La Forge del Mitg
    Carol Duval
    • Sep 2, 2018
    • 1 min

    La Forge del Mitg

    Our home for seven weeks in early autumn is in this small but deceptively lively mountain village in the heart of north Catalonia. The...
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    Waterways of the Tsars
    Carol Duval
    • Jul 31, 2015
    • 1 min

    Waterways of the Tsars

    The story of our trip, courtesy of Viking River Cruise, from St Petersburg to Moscow.
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