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Tag: travel
Astro Girl and Junefest
This month sees the publication of Astro Girl, my latest book. I’ll be doing a workshop featuring her at Junefest, a children’s books festival in Stroud Green & Harringay Library, North London. More about Astro Girl in a future post…
Commuter
In 2001, 37 per cent of workers in the capital (London) used rail or underground travel as their main form of transport to work, according to the Office for National Statistics. London had the highest proportion of rail commuters of any Urban Audit city in the UK
London – Frankfurt
I crossed two things of my endless list of things to do; I went tot he Frankfurt book Fair for the first time; and I went by car. Almost 600 miles separate Dover from Frankfurt. We drove through France, the Belgium, the into Germany. Seven hours later it was done. But first we had to…… Continue reading London – Frankfurt
Once you have travelled…
“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey”.Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides US novelist (1945 –
The Weary Traveller
“He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 – 1944)
The Illustrationist 