#Travel

jdettmann

Oct 10, 20163 min read

Pining For The Fjords

I’m doing that thing I always do when I come back from new and wonderful, and I try to transport the lifestyle. When H and I went to...

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jdettmann

Sep 22, 20164 min read

Leave No Bag Behind

My suitcase, in disgrace It’s my fourth day in Finland and I know three words. They’re same three words I knew before I got here. Sauna,...

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jdettmann

Sep 15, 20164 min read

Terrible Syncing Feeling

This useless slack-jawed snake will not do its job. I swear to Odin, the first thing I am going to do when I get to Scandinavia is go...

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jdettmann

Aug 25, 20165 min read

Area of Particular Interest

That aside, we are really very extremely excited. We are going to Finland, Sweden and Denmark. The trip has come about because Jess is a...

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jdettmann

Apr 27, 20165 min read

Nothing Is Fun For The Whole Family

This seems lovely, doesn’t it? Until you realise that is not the ocean Garnet is wallowing in but actually self-pity. See the ripples of...

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jdettmann

Mar 1, 20163 min read

Tropical with No Chance of Orang-utans

How I cope with this is to put aside what I should be doing (perhaps preparing my keynote speech for the International Conference on...

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jdettmann

Jul 31, 20154 min read

Waikiki? Your Guess Is As Good As Mine.

Waikiki at dawn. I like this place best between 4 and 6 am. Aloha from Hawaii, where I am finishing up a three-week lecture tour of the...

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jdettmann

Jun 24, 20154 min read

Save The Horses

To this end, we have employed the time-honoured parenting practice of a rewards chart. It is called ‘Operation No Brokeback Mounts’ and...

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jdettmann

Feb 25, 20152 min read

To Fiji, Come Hell Or High Vomit

Two hours and all the towels in the house later, he was a limp pile of empty little boy on the sofa, and I was reading the fine print on...

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jdettmann

Feb 11, 20153 min read

Train Travel For The Out-Of-Practice

Train for illustrative purposes only. Not a Tangara. When my train pulled into the station this morning, I thought ‘Ooh, fancy: a...

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jdettmann

Sep 20, 20133 min read

Things Are Good When Things Are Good

Thing 1: Since one or other or another of his or my recent colds or ear infections or other random maladies that have blurred into one...

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jdettmann

Apr 19, 20133 min read

The Games We Play: Angry Men Edition

I spent a bit of time on that flight in the galley, bobbing around while getting Garnet off to sleep, and so I was privy to the pursed...

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jdettmann

Nov 26, 20121 min read

Six Excellent Foreign Ideas

1. Gazpacho in cartons from the supermarket 2. Ruins: ruins are lovely. Why don’t we have more of them? 3. Orangutans: Australia should...

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jdettmann

Aug 21, 20124 min read

What I Learned on My Holidays

1. You have to stay somewhere as good or better than home. My very clever friend Other Jess once told me this, and I think she is right....

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jdettmann

Aug 10, 20123 min read

Off The Wagon

We have just spent seven days on a dude ranch in southern Colorado with my extended family on my mother’s side. We do this every couple...

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jdettmann

Jul 25, 20122 min read

Degree Of Difficulty

Oh for the days when the in-seat phone was all the entertainment she needed. In about four hours we are heading to the airport to fly for...

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jdettmann

Jan 28, 20123 min read

Highly Commended

The Show is a two-day affair, Friday and Saturday, and a celebration of all things agricultural. It is also, in its own way and perhaps...

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jdettmann

Dec 29, 20113 min read

A Deep Breath Out

Hello there. Did you survive Christmas? Are you still speaking to any of your family? Did anyone lose an eye when the top button of your...

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jdettmann

Dec 15, 20113 min read

Fly Away Home

Perhaps someone could explain to my eyelids why I am so damn shattered then. Maybe it’s because on our splendid holiday we visited the...

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jdettmann

Dec 10, 20113 min read

I’ll Have What Everyone Else Is Having

Freezing fog, that’s the forecast for Denver this morning. I didn’t even know that was a thing. Shows how much I know about weather....

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