Travel Archives - The Art of Creative Writing https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/category/travel/ Your muse is live in the city and the bush Wed, 11 Dec 2024 11:42:26 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/cropped-cropped-cropped-cropped-cropped-cropped-Seagull-Ascent-2-32x32.jpg Travel Archives - The Art of Creative Writing https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/category/travel/ 32 32 An Invitation to a Qing Ming (Grave Sweeping) Ceremony in China: Text and Photos by Roger Britton https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/an-invitation-to-a-qing-ming-grave-sweeping-ceremony-in-china/ https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/an-invitation-to-a-qing-ming-grave-sweeping-ceremony-in-china/#respond Thu, 20 Apr 2023 01:13:49 +0000 https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/?p=20386 A Guest Post on The Art of Creative Writing website, this post written by Roger Britton How it all started We had been hosting Chinese students in our home for several years from our sister school in Jinan. Each one stayed with us for two years at a time attending Years 11 and 12 at […]

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]]> https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/an-invitation-to-a-qing-ming-grave-sweeping-ceremony-in-china/feed/ 0 Travels in Other Countries https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/travels-in-other-countries/ https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/travels-in-other-countries/#respond Sat, 31 Dec 2022 08:30:45 +0000 https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/?p=19850 The must-do broadening experience of a lifetime I travelled rough when I was young. Now that I’m much older, I will only travel in style, accompanying my husband, if possible, when we have the chance. But I fully intend to travel until I can no longer do so. Australians tend to be great travellers. We […]

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]]> https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/travels-in-other-countries/feed/ 0 I visit the Ukraine in 1968 https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/i-visit-the-ukraine-in-1968/ https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/i-visit-the-ukraine-in-1968/#respond Fri, 25 Feb 2022 02:30:52 +0000 http://write4publish.com/?p=7119 My Travel Journal Continues: “From Paris to Russia and Back” Because of the events in Ukraine today, I have re-published this post with sadness in my heart at the thought of these memorable days. May the sufferings of the Ukrainian people come to an end soon, and the Russian troops ordered into the country by […]

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]]> https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/i-visit-the-ukraine-in-1968/feed/ 0 5 or 6 Things About Valencia https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/5-or-6-things-about-valencia/ https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/5-or-6-things-about-valencia/#respond Wed, 29 May 2019 13:49:52 +0000 https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/?p=15253 The Old and the New are intermingled in harmony in Valencia

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]]> https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/5-or-6-things-about-valencia/feed/ 0 Return to Cavtat…uvijek! https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/return-to-cavtat-uvijek/ https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/return-to-cavtat-uvijek/#respond Sat, 25 May 2019 09:35:12 +0000 https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/?p=15186 We’re here in Cavtat on the southern coast of Croatia, for the 4th International Symposium on Stuttering that my husband convenes. Participants come from more than a dozen countries, from Europe, Asia, the UK, America and the Pacific region. We are a going to visit Zagreb where the Croatian convenor, Suzana lives, and stay one […]

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]]> https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/return-to-cavtat-uvijek/feed/ 0 Magnetic Island will pull you in… https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/magnetic-island-will-pull/ https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/magnetic-island-will-pull/#respond Thu, 28 Jun 2018 00:10:54 +0000 https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/?p=14123 Magnetic Island Magnetic Island is part of the Great Barrier Reef.  Just outside our unit is a marked underwater reef that one can follow, either with a snorkel or by renting a  flat board, to view the coral. The island is shaped like an equilateral triangle. Each side of the triangle is 11 kilometres in […]

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]]> https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/magnetic-island-will-pull/feed/ 0 Return to Croatia https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/return-to-croatia/ https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/return-to-croatia/#respond Wed, 14 Mar 2018 21:00:59 +0000 https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/?p=13722 En Route to Croatia We just flew over the mountains of Eastern Europe en route to Frankfurt from Dubai. Qantas have teamed up with the United Arab Emirates airline, so we did the first leg from Sydney to Dubai with Qantas, and the second one from Dubai to Frankfurt with Emirates. I really enjoyed stopping […]

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]]> https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/return-to-croatia/feed/ 0 A Tuscan Village Holiday https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/tuscan-village-holiday/ https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/tuscan-village-holiday/#comments Fri, 02 Feb 2018 23:16:49 +0000 https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/?p=13371 Italy: Fast Cars Driving on the autostrada is a relief after Rome. Watch on the right, my partner says repeatedly, having been traumatised when the mirror on our rented manual Fiat Punta was flattened against a truck in Rome’s crowded streets. I’m the driver, having learnt to conduire à la droite in France, as a […]

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]]> https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/tuscan-village-holiday/feed/ 2 Travel to Croatia https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/travel-and-a-creative-writing-blogging-award-2017/ https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/travel-and-a-creative-writing-blogging-award-2017/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:37:02 +0000 http://www.anneskyvington.com/?p=9474 A highlight of 2016 was travel with my husband to the cooler climes of Croatia and Bosnia Herzogovina for a week in their autumn (October), followed by another week in the freezing weaher (for us) of Budapest and Copenhagen. My husband was in Croatia to lead the 3rd International Symposium on Stuttering, held at the […]

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