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Advent Candles

Last year’s plain candles, revealed a week at a time, on one side; this year’s added, week by week, on the other side. The sunrise was a bonus.

Trails of 2022

2022 marked my completion of three trails: the Thames Path, Offa’s Dyke, and the Pilgrims’ Way from Southwark to Canterbury.

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“Why are so many people flying to Bulgaria?” a fellow-pilgrim asked me as we waited to board the plane. “I know why we are going, but why are they?” I didn’t know why we were going, but I hoped that, sooner or later, someone would tell us. No-one ever did. Perhaps it was because aContinue reading “Bulgaria 2022”

Start Again

Goodbye to my old blog, and welcome back to the one I first thought of. In 2016 I abandoned my first attempt, “Emerita”, in wordpress.com, and developed barmoss.com using the more versatile wordpress.org, with my own choice of URL which was less pretentious and easier to remember. Now barmoss.com has become too full of menusContinue reading “Start Again”

Back in Europe

My virtual journey, Around the World in 80 Books, has crossed the Dardanelles to Istanbul. Heading for the Danube, then mostly north-west back to England.

Half Way Round the World

At the midpoint of my virtual journey I am a long way from home. Here’s the extract from my trail on goodreads.com. You can follow my journey through the Americas here. 40: ANTARCTICA: Antarctica**** Pete Wilkinson, From Deptford to Antarctica: The Long Way Home. What an appropriate title for my half-way point in this journey ATW!Continue reading “Half Way Round the World”

Crossing the Atlantic

In my virtual journey “Around the World in 80 Books”, I am leaving South Africa and crossing to Brazil. You can see the African part of the journey here.

Around the World in 80 Books- Progress

I have now “visited” 25 countries, and have copied the record onto pages in the Books section of this site. So far there are two pages, England to Malta (complete) and Africa (in progress).