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Rivertrain: Edinburgh Festival Fringe - Titus Andronicus Review

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A blog about writing and travelling. Text and images © Morelle Smith. Friday, 7 August 2015. Edinburgh Festival Fringe - Titus Andronicus Review. Titus Andronicus – Smooth Faced Gentlemen. An all female production) at the Pleasance Dome, Kingdome, Venue 75. Tamora the Goth Queen and Aaron. The vivid energy and emotional authenticity at times had me damp-eyed – as well as laughing, (yes, there is humour here too! What struck me particularly is the movement, the choreography which has the lithe and sensuou...

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Rivertrain: Walking the City 3 - Berlin, Past & Present, Imagined & Sunlit

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A blog about writing and travelling. Text and images © Morelle Smith. Monday, 3 August 2015. Walking the City 3 - Berlin, Past and Present, Imagined and Sunlit. My absolute favourite Tier in Berlin's Tiergarten. What was it that triggered that feeling – quite suddenly – of a far deeper connection with a place? I felt it at some point today during the Warsaw train's slow arrival into Berlin – but where exactly? Was it when I saw a red brick building I recognized, and knew that I was near Lichtenberg?

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Rivertrain: Edinburgh Festival Fringe - The Book of Love - Review

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A blog about writing and travelling. Text and images © Morelle Smith. Wednesday, 12 August 2015. Edinburgh Festival Fringe - The Book of Love - Review. The Book of Love by Lindsay Benner. Venue 88, Just the Fancy: The Caves – 8-12 Niddry St. S. August 6 – 29 (except 18 and 25th). Lindsay Benner - Love as a Juggling Act. This year's Fringe has been like that for me, full of serendipity. I decided to go and see Lindsay Benner's. The Book of Love. The background music certainly helps, as do various members ...

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Rivertrain: July 2015

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A blog about writing and travelling. Text and images © Morelle Smith. Friday, 24 July 2015. Walking the City 2 – Central Berlin. Hackescher Markt station Berlin. Exploring Berlin for the first time, and trying to follow the guide book's instructions, the neat diagrams on the page did not match the vast scale of wide streets and towering buildings, both old and modern. So I put it the away, decided to follow my feet rather than the guide book. Connaître, c'est reconnaître. In this second arrival, this tim...

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Rivertrain: Mashhad and the Imam Reza Shrine

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A blog about writing and travelling. Text and images © Morelle Smith. Saturday, 21 May 2011. Mashhad and the Imam Reza Shrine. I'm working on travel writing from the Middle East for Sons of Camus International Writers Journal [you can read a review of the last issue here. In Mashhad, in eastern Iran, near. The border with Afghanistan, there is a shrine to Iman Reza, which was first built in 818 AD. It was partially destroy. This is part of my translation of Annemarie Schwarzenbach, writing about. We are ...

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Rivertrain: August 2015

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A blog about writing and travelling. Text and images © Morelle Smith. Wednesday, 12 August 2015. Edinburgh Festival Fringe - The Book of Love - Review. The Book of Love by Lindsay Benner. Venue 88, Just the Fancy: The Caves – 8-12 Niddry St. S. August 6 – 29 (except 18 and 25th). Lindsay Benner - Love as a Juggling Act. This year's Fringe has been like that for me, full of serendipity. I decided to go and see Lindsay Benner's. The Book of Love. The background music certainly helps, as do various members ...

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Rivertrain: Aphrodite's Path, Cyprus

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A blog about writing and travelling. Text and images © Morelle Smith. Saturday, 6 December 2014. Aphrodite's Path, Cyprus. The trail, Aphrodite's Path, is in the south east of Cyprus, near Cape Greco, a slender promontory. The path follows the coast, the water in the bay luminous turquoise patches among darker blue. A dragonfly perches on the top of the spiny plant. A Joint Pine, and an Exotic Pine as well as the familiar trailing leaves ofeucalyptus. I have to scrape the soil off, on large stones. Les p...

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Rivertrain: April 2015

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A blog about writing and travelling. Text and images © Morelle Smith. Friday, 3 April 2015. Duddo Stone Circle, Sea and Sunset. Glittering ground, covered with frost. Sunshine and clear blue sky. We drive to the 'secret destination' (which is there with every journey) but this time it really is a secret to JR as I've planned a surprise for him. We are nearly there, and I'm looking at the map, as we go down a narrow road. A tiny signpost says 'Tiptoe only'. You're setting this up! A man with two small dog...

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Rivertrain: BOOK TITLES

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A blog about writing and travelling. Text and images © Morelle Smith. Open Roads and Secret Destinations. Travel Essays from Europe (France, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Austria, Greece etc). ISBN 978 606 13 2844 4. Published by Bibliotheca Universalis, Bucharest, 2016. Every Shade of Blue:. Travels with a Musician. Travel Journals in Europe and USA. ISBN 978 0 9927233 3 0. Published by Kairos, 2015. The Definition of Happiness. Oetry Collection (bi-lingual English/Romanian). ISBN 978 606 13 2385 2. On the w...