Travelling Light: Reflections on Learning a Language
Heathrow Airport, May 1973. I make my way through the crowds, following scribbled notes about Tube stations, where to change lines, which exit to look for. My brother’s instructions are on a [...]
Memoir – Patrizia Scudellaro
Memoir, by Patrizia Scudellaro, Creative Writing Course ‘Found in Translation’ 2017.
The Tenerife diaries: San Cristóbal de la Laguna
To celebrate the arrival of the New Year on Monday, I took the tram from the centre of Santa Cruz to La Laguna – or, to give it its full title, San Cristóbal de la Laguna – a city that has been [...]
Folk tradition and people of the Renaissance – by Simonetta Bernasconi – Found in Translation Course
Folk tradition and people of the Renaissance – by Simonetta Bernasconi – Found in Translation Course 2017.
Course in creative writing in English, in Verona
I’m very much looking forward to facilitating a course in creative writing in Verona in February of this year. The course will take place over two days, all day Saturday the 3rd and Sunday the [...]
The Way the Light Falls… in Spain and Italy
There are times when I stop what I’m doing and think about my good fortune. (There are plenty of other times when I don’t think that at all – or when I think about how tough life can be – but [...]
