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Travels through History : The Peloponnese - Kapsia Cave

This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book called Travels through History : The Peloponnese. The Kapsia Cave is the most enthralling cave I’ve ever been to. If you’re travelling from the area of Nafplio or Mycenae to Mantinea or Tripoli, then you should plan to come here first, before continuing your journey. I have to admit that my judgement might be clouded because I was getting a personal…

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Explore Kapsia Cave: A Unique Adventure in the Peloponnese

This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book called Travels through History : The Peloponnese. The Kapsia Cave is the most enthralling cave I’ve ever been to. If you’re travelling from the area of Nafplio or Mycenae to Mantinea or Tripoli, then you should plan to come here first, before continuing your journey. I have to admit that my judgement might be clouded because I was getting a personal…

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Fiction - Tree-Hugging Cats - Chapter 2 - Start

I wake up this morning to a familiar smell and a familiar noise. The smell is the coffee that I presume John has put on in order to wake him up. The noise is him lurching around in his bedroom, trying not to trip over the furniture and failing by the sounds of it. I think he is unpacking his suitcase too, and it sounds like it’s fighting back. I pad softly over to the door of his room and peer…

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Travels through History : The Peloponnese - Argos

This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book called Travels through History : The Peloponnese. This is the oldest city in Greece, with excavations revealing activity dating back 5,000 years to roughly 3000 BC. As you might expect, there’s a legend attached to Argos, and it involves our friend Zeus once again. An oracle warned King Acrisius of Argos that one day his grandson would kill him. To…

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Travels through History : The Peloponnese - Argos

This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book called Travels through History : The Peloponnese. This is the oldest city in Greece, with excavations revealing activity dating back 5,000 years to roughly 3000 BC. As you might expect, there’s a legend attached to Argos, and it involves our friend Zeus once again. An oracle warned King Acrisius of Argos that one day his grandson would kill him. To…

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Fiction - Tree-Hugging Cats - Chapter 1

Hello – Welcome Dear Reader. We arrive back at our home in the late afternoon with about twelve hours to spare before our human parents come back, at least according to the schedule that our minder Mrs Elkins shows us. The journey back was uneventful, although saying ‘tot ziens’ to Miep at Brussels was quite difficult. She was wonderful to us and we will miss her, although I have this intuition…

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Travels through History : The Peloponnese - Mycenae

This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book called Travels through History : The Peloponnese. This is probably the busiest archaeological site on the Peloponnese because of the number of day trippers that arrive here from Athens. Therefore, get to the site as early as you can. In the summer months, it will also be far cooler in the morning as the site doesn’t have much shelter from the…

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Travels through History : The Peloponnese - Mycenae

This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book called Travels through History : The Peloponnese. This is probably the busiest archaeological site on the Peloponnese because of the number of day trippers that arrive here from Athens. Therefore, get to the site as early as you can. In the summer months, it will also be far cooler in the morning as the site doesn’t have much shelter from the…

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Fiction - Tree-Hugging Cats

This is an introduction written by me, Freddie Cat. I wrote it today. I write everything today as I live in the moment because I am a Buddhist cat. This is the third book in the series after The Diary of a Buddhist Cat and Our Cats in Amsterdam. The events described here take place immediately after the adventures in the second book.   I think this is the opportune time to remind you what…

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Travels through History : The Peloponnese - Corinth

This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book called Travels through History : The Peloponnese. Corinth is the gateway to the astounding region called The Peloponnese. The first thing to do is cross the Corinth Canal and then walk back to stand in the middle of the bridge and see yachts and medium-sized ships use this canal, started in 1882 and completed in 1893. The Corinth Canal enabled Piraeus…

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Travels through History : The Peloponnese - Corinth

This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book called Travels through History : The Peloponnese. Corinth is the gateway to the astounding region called The Peloponnese. The first thing to do is cross the Corinth Canal and then walk back to stand in the middle of the bridge and see yachts and medium-sized ships use this canal, started in 1882 and completed in 1893. The Corinth Canal enabled Piraeus…

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Julian Worker - Newsletter 2 - UK Blog

Welcome to the second monthly newsletter for my UK blog. I’ve written another book in the Travels through History series called Travels through History : The Great Little Trains of Wales plus others.  One of the ‘others’ is the Severn Valley Railway and this is what I’ve written about this line from Kidderminster to Bridgnorth. Opened in 1862 after a nine-year building project, the Severn…

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Julian Worker - Travel Newsletter 2 - Greece

Welcome to the second newsletter of this blog. My writing this month has been about Greece. I’m going to publish a book in the Travels through History series for Greece : The Peloponnese (similar to the ones for Northern Spain, The Balkans, Southern France, 9 Greek Islands, North-East England, Poland and The Baltics, and Armenia). I was waiting until I’d visited The Saronic Gulf islands and…

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Julian Worker - Fact and Fiction - Newsletter 2

Welcome to the second newsletter for this Fact and Fiction blog.  This month the newsletter is all about fictional cats. I’ve written a third book about Freddie and Gemma called Tree-Hugging Cats. This will be published nearer Christmas. Readers enjoyed the first two books in the series, Diary of a Buddhist Cat and Our Cats in Amsterdam, and I hope they enjoy the third one.   The background is…

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Living in the Moment: Lessons from a Cat's Diary - 3

This is Page 3 from the book Diary of a Buddhist Cat ============================================================== When John brought me to the house where I live now, he let me out of the cat carrier and I couldn’t believe there were places to run to, other rooms and there was an outside through the windows. They even let me go out of the front door, into the outside world, and I miaowed with…

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Tofino's Hidden Gems: Food, Nature, and First Nations Art

This excerpt is taken from my new e-book On Foot : Islands of British Columbia and the Sunshine Coast The waves have come a long way when they hit the beaches on the west side of the Tofino peninsula. The view north from the town is of forests and mountains with, in the foreground, Meares Island and Vargas Island. To the northwest and west are the smaller Clayoquot Island and Wickaninnish…

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Living in the Moment: Lessons from a Cat's Diary - 2

This is Page 2 from the book Diary of a Buddhist Cat ============================================================== Well, you can probably guess the rest. John saw me at the shelter and felt a Buddhist cat would fit the bill perfectly and so took me to adorn his house. He had obtained another cat, a female cat called Gemma, a few weeks earlier from the same shelter. I should tell you a little…