Amelia's Blog

Jan 3, 202310 min read

Can walking help your brain? Can you walk into happiness?

Before I lost my job, I was flying high. I was working as a Keeper of Art in a museum negotiating with the Tate Britain and the Arts...

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Dec 30, 20223 min read

How can one day of walking in the snow be so blissful?

Like all children from 3 to 83, I wanted snow at Christmas, but we did not get any. A few days before Christmas, however, we had a...

Jul 21, 20224 min read

What's it like to have a wild experience with a baby redstart? A baby bird landed on me!

A baby redstart landed on me! I had the most amazing experience today; I was innocently photographing our huge dill plant; it's beyond...

Apr 16, 20221 min read

My Corner of Austria by Amelia Marriette

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...

Dec 18, 20215 min read

Is Walking Boring? Written by my Guest Blogger - Sabrina Balin.

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...

Feb 1, 20214 min read

How much do we know about RAF Klagenfurt in Kaernten, Austria? Introducing my next book.

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...

Jan 4, 20218 min read

What does Walking into Alchemy mean? And What is Spiritual Alchemy?

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

Dec 30, 20204 min read

Is it okay to be imperfect? Japanese Kintsugi has the answer.

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...

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