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Coming down the mountain, to Cetara

I met a guy called Alfredo. Gods was that his name? Anyway, I did meet him walking down the road from my hike today and he told me in half Italian, half English all about his life, which was interesting

clario April 11, 2018August 4, 2018 Hiking, Travelling No Comments Read more

All Your Network Adaptor Are Belong to Us!

This morning, just as I was about to dig enthusiastically into some WordPress customising, that scary little yellow warning sign appeared on the wifi icon on my task bar. Everyone knows how annoying that is. The question of “is it

clario June 8, 2017June 8, 2017 Tech, Windows, Windoze No Comments Read more

PHP Debugging for Atom on Windows!

Yesterday I spent a large part of the afternoon getting debugging for PHP up and running on Atom editor. Although it turned out to be relatively simple in the end I did a lot of banging my head against stack

clario December 9, 2016December 9, 2016 PHP, Tech No Comments Read more

An Unexpected Smile

The Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon is packed with really famous and great paintings but I think my favourite one was this painting entitled “John Lewis Brown with Wife and Daughter” by Giovanni Boldini. Not just because in contrast to the

clario September 20, 2015September 20, 2015 Art No Comments Read more

Brain Paths

My shame path Rears up, flexes Raises its hackles like a porcupine raises quills Where did it come from? Strong and proud over me Like my master so much of the time. Makes me crouch, makes me shudder Makes me

clario September 19, 2015September 20, 2015 Words No Comments Read more

Cartridges

The spent bullet casings are slowly being removed from the building known as the sniper’s nest in Mostar. I have two of them in my pocket right now. Those are the remains of two small things that may well have

clario June 13, 2015 Bosnia & Hercegovina, Mostar, Travelling Read more

Site of Witness and Memory, Shkodra

I’m standing in a corridor, lined with doors. One of them creeks behind me and I feel slightly sick. It’s easy to imagine a cell door slamming shut on me, locking me inside while I wait to be tortured and, even in a museum

clario June 11, 2015February 12, 2018 Albania, Travelling Read more

Kotor to Albania by bus: 1 day, €16.50.

I can’t claim any credit for this idea. It was all Jennie’s idea, really. The story goes, it’s a nightmare to travel from Montenegro to Albania and, once there, it’s a nightmare to get around the country. Of the Kotor

clario June 2, 2015June 11, 2015 Albania, Montenegro, Travelling No Comments Read more

Beyond the Fortress

The thing that everyone does when they go to Kotor (and which is a great thing to do) is climb up the many steps to the fortress that sits above the town. For a tourist destination, the path is refershingly

clario May 27, 2015May 27, 2015 Hiking, Montenegro, Travelling Read more

A nice thing to do…

It’s worth having a cup of coffee on the Trg od Brašna in Kotor at the Astoria just for the tasty little lemon cakes they serve it with. Enjoy while looking out at the Palata Prima. The coffee’s pretty tasty too.

clario May 12, 2015May 13, 2015 Travelling Read more
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