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A small town take on the big, wide world

Oh, Barcelona

By Jill's Scene on November 30, 2017 • ( 10 Comments )

Come explore Cadiz with me

By Jill's Scene on November 15, 2017 • ( 13 Comments )

Wandering through Seville

By Jill's Scene on November 8, 2017 • ( 10 Comments )

After the Camino de Santiago

By Jill's Scene on November 4, 2017 • ( 21 Comments )

Day 52 on the Camino de Santiago: Pedrouzo to Santiago

By Jill's Scene on October 29, 2017 • ( 19 Comments )

Day 51 on the Camino de Santiago: Ribadiso to Pedrouzo

By Jill's Scene on October 28, 2017 • ( 9 Comments )

At Dusk by Hwang Sok-yong

By Jill's Scene on April 6, 2019 • ( 3 Comments )

In the end those landmarks of his life, which might have guided him onwards, are quite gone. 

The New Ships by Kate Duignan

By Jill's Scene on April 1, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

A finely crafted novel that traverses the territory of love and loss, broken family ties, and political upheaval

Two Old Women by Velma Wallis

By Jill's Scene on March 26, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live!

This Mortal Boy by Fiona Kidman

By Jill's Scene on March 19, 2019 • ( 10 Comments )

Sometimes there is a prescience to novels, as if certain books have their particular time.

The Man Who Would Not See by Rajorshi Chakraborti

By Jill's Scene on March 13, 2019 • ( 2 Comments )

I wanted to know more about this man; what it was he wouldn’t see, and who it was that wanted him to see things their way.

Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

By Jill's Scene on March 6, 2019 • ( 2 Comments )

To me those four words reverberated with doom and I just had to know what happened.

The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke by Tina Makereti

By Jill's Scene on February 25, 2019 • ( 9 Comments )

Listen, miracle of the future. You strange possibility, my descendant.

The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi

By Jill's Scene on February 17, 2019 • ( 13 Comments )

A book which has me dreaming of time travel.

two old men dying by Tom Keneally

By Jill's Scene on February 12, 2019 • ( 10 Comments )

My tweet comes back to peck me

Idaho by Emily Ruskovich

By Jill's Scene on February 2, 2019 • ( 10 Comments )

This is a book that will break your heart, and then somehow help you put it back together again.

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Day 50 on the Camino de Santiago: Casa Domingo to Ribadiso

Day 49 on the Camino de Santiago: Ventas del Norte to Casa Domingo

Ecuador »

Night time jungle walk, Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve.

Two go to the jungle and return alive … eventually

Changing the guard in Quito

Quito

Laos »

My thanks to each and every one of you.

Getting connected in Northern Laos

Woo hoo! A guest post on Travel Gumbo!!

Women’s work – handcraft in Northern Laos

Street photography – thinking on the page

Myanmar (Burma) »

On elections

I need three feet; no, make that four.

Scooters and other matters in Bagan

Bagan: panoramas and temples

A meal to remember in Bagan

Thailand »

The Path of The Tiger by Sila Khoamchai

Ah, Chiang Mai

A reprise: Why go to Koh Wai, Thailand

Bangkok, City of Angels

Pray for Bangkok

Kia Ora Tatou

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