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Meandering in Sicily

Posted on August 8, 2025 by Rosalind Mullen

May 2025 Sicily’s Mount Etna is still puffing gently behind us, having blown its top a week ago. However, the owner of our small guest house outside Zafferana-Etnea, the small gateway town to the national park, is unfazed by the … Continue reading →

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Uzbekistan … and the mysterious taxi passengers

Posted on July 11, 2025 by Rosalind Mullen

September 2023 After more than 30 years of off-on yearning, I was finally going to see the magnificent aqua-blue-green-tiled mosques and madrassas of Samarkand. This trip had been fomenting since 1989 when I had stood in Beijing’s main train station … Continue reading →

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China with a nine-year-old

Posted on June 19, 2020 by Rosalind Mullen

16 April 2012 Kit has proved that nine-year-olds can make top travelling companions. He and I are back in China, having left Tibet with heavy hearts. We arrived in our Guilin hostel at midnight. Fresh from a land of Buddhist … Continue reading →

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Ethiopia … at last

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Rosalind Mullen

Following on from my last blog, Ethiopia without a map … One thing I learned pretty quickly about Ethiopia is that I’d underestimated it. Instead of the parched, desolate country I’d envisaged from heartbreaking TV footage of the 1980s famine, I … Continue reading →

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Ethiopia without a map

Posted on September 30, 2013 by Rosalind Mullen

So, I’m packing for Ethiopia. This time next week, I’ll be trekking with five friends somewhere in the Simien Mountains. I think this particular trip is going to push me way out of my comfort zone – not least because, … Continue reading →

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Travel blog – Vietnam with an eight-year-old

Posted on February 2, 2013 by Rosalind Mullen

April 2010 – Just Kit and I – Vietnam It’s week one of backpacking alone with Kit. I spent a fair whack of my 20s backpacking – travelling free-style, inviting adventure. But to be honest, I’m beginning to think the … Continue reading →

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Travel blog – Tibet with a nine-year-old

Posted on February 2, 2013 by Rosalind Mullen

4 April 2012 At Beijing Xi station… waiting for the Beijing-Lhasa train…We gave ourselves too much time to get through the airport-style security and now have hours to kill. A quick-witted woman at a rickety old desk offered us a “private … Continue reading →

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