Enjoying Antigua I had no idea what sort of day I would be having when friends Gaynor and Paul invited me to lunch in Las Playitas, a tiny village on Fuerteventura’s east coast, a little north of Gran Tarajal. Mid-morning, we set off from Puerto del Rosario, taking an inland route to pick up anotherContinue reading “A Lazy Day in Las Playitas, Fuerteventura”
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Book Review: The Mentor by Lee Matthew Goldberg
About The Mentor Kyle Broder has achieved his lifelong dream and is an editor at a major publishing house. When Kyle is contacted by his favorite college professor, William Lansing, Kyle couldn’t be happier. Kyle has his mentor over for dinner to catch up and introduce him to his girlfriend, Jamie, and the three haveContinue reading “Book Review: The Mentor by Lee Matthew Goldberg”
Book Review: The Unholy by Paul deBlassie III
About The Unholy The Unholy is a dramatic story of Claire Sanchez, a young medicine woman, intent on discovering the closely-guarded secrets of her past. Forced into a life-and-death battle against an evil Archbishop, William Anarch, she confronts the dark side of religion and the horror of one man’s will to power. Set in theContinue reading “Book Review: The Unholy by Paul deBlassie III”
A Day Out and About in Fuerteventura
When I planned to spend a month on this fascinating Canary Island, I imagined getting around on public buses and placing my faith in their esoteric timetables. Instead, my fabulous friends here are showing me around. Yesterday, photographer and artist JF Olivares took me south. The day proved hazy thanks to a strong easterly bringingContinue reading “A Day Out and About in Fuerteventura”
A morning stroll in Puerto del Rosario
I had no idea when I booked an entire month in an apartment in central Puerto del Rosario that I would fall for this little port city. Little, as it has a population of 40,000, which is half the population of Fuerteventura. Formerly Puerto Cabras, the city has been the island capital since 1860. TheContinue reading “A morning stroll in Puerto del Rosario”
Arriving in Fuerteventura
Flying from the Gold Coast to Fuerteventura to arrive at the equivalent latitude in the north is a journey not to be sniffed at. It took 44 hours of travelling door to door, involving an airport shuttle, four planes, a lift in a car, a ferry and another lift in a car. Those car journeysContinue reading “Arriving in Fuerteventura”
Book Review: Follow Him by Craig Stewart
About Follow Him True love doesn’t die – it devours. Just outside the sleepy town of Dreury, a mysterious cult known as The Shared Heart has planted its stakes. Its followers are numerous. More join every day. Those who are lost and suffering seem to be drawn to it; a home for the broken. WhenContinue reading “Book Review: Follow Him by Craig Stewart”
Responding to the Fires
It is now three weeks after a devastating bushfire tore through my old home town Cobargo, part of a fire apocalypse that has razed an area of Australia about the size of England. Fires in various locations in Australia are still burning. The fire season is far from over. Used to be called summer. TheseContinue reading “Responding to the Fires”
Book Review: Bullets, Teeth and Fists 3 by Jason Beech
BULLETS, TEETH, & FISTS 3 She’s heavily pregnant. She’s handcuffed to a pipe. The clock is ticking. Belle, the heavily pregnant wife of an important man, is bundled into the back of a car, held against her will, and cuffed to a pipe in an abandoned apartment … and her waters are aboutContinue reading “Book Review: Bullets, Teeth and Fists 3 by Jason Beech”
Book Review: 113 Hours by Zach Abrams
133 Hours Arriving at work to find she’s lost more than five and a half days of her life, Briony has no recollection of where she’s been, or what has happened. Has she been ill or had a breakdown – or could she have been drugged and abducted? Doubting her own sanity, Briony isContinue reading “Book Review: 113 Hours by Zach Abrams”
Isobel Blackthorn 