Amelia's Blog

A few months ago the administrators of the Facebook group the British in Austria asked me to write about the area where I now live in...

This week my Guest Blogger is the children's author Martina Graf; her pen name is Martina Schmerlaib (I am jealous I have always wanted...

Many of you read Sam Richard’s excellent blog post about Imogen Holst, which I published on my site a few weeks ago. Sam has returned to...

In 2020 I wrote a blog asking how many previous lives have you had? I wrote this partly because I am a firm believer in the concept and...

I am delighted to bring you another superb blog from my Guest Blogger Sam Richards. Sam is based in Totnes in South Devon; amongst other...

Over the past few years, I have grown to like blogging. I collect ideas and images, think about what may interest my readers, and jot my...

I usually walk the designated 10,000 steps a day either in my garden or in the hills and mountains of Southern Austria, where I now live....

There is always hope. It may be a cliché but hope does lift us up - maybe Shakespeare is one of the first writers to use such an analogy....

This is just a little update about the crowdfunding campaign that we began working on in January and launched in April. We launched our...

The Beautiful, The Sublime, and Me: Walking On the Malvern Hills and in Southern Austria During the three years that I was writing my...

"There is a willow grows aslant a brook." Shakespeare, Nature and Mental Health By Amelia Marriette As the weather begins to improve and...

(auf Deutsch) Unsere Startnext-Kampagne ist geöffnet! Ich möchte mein erfolgreiches Buch Walking into Alchemy als deutsche Ausgabe...

I was a curator working in a museum in South Devon in the UK; this was my dream job. Suddenly, the local council made my job redundant...

My article about the Gustav Holst Way appears in the January 2021 edition of Cotswold Life Magazine – you still have time to grab a copy!...

Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green,...

It’s the time of year when, like most of us, I feel reflective and perhaps even a little melancholy. Have I achieved all that I wanted to...

When I relocated from South Devon in the UK to Bad Sankt Leonhard in the Carinthian region of Austria in 2015 one of the things I was...

When I was appointed as the Curator of the Holst Birthplace Museum in Cheltenham in 2004, I began what will probably be a lifelong quest...

Hello, my name is Amelia Marriette, and I am a walker. I freely admit it. I am addicted, and there seems to be no cure. Much of my life...

Dr Kerri Andrew's new book Wanderers: A History of Women Walking is a long-overdue work and is a very welcome addition to the canon. Dr...