My 5 Favourite Potter en Français Translations PART 1

As promised in my mid-year resolution that I made in September, I have been reading Harry Potter in French for the first time lately. This afternoon, as I picked up Le Prisonnier d'Azkaban, I was excited, not just because it has been a pleasure to return to the wizarding world, but because some of the translations for…

What’s in a name? Thank you Hillary Clinton.

Like Hillary Clinton, I graduated from Swansea University in 2017, but that's not all we have in common. We both have Welsh ancestry and we share a name, though mine is spelt properly (obviously). When it was announced that Hillary Clinton would be receiving an honorary degree from Swansea and delivering a speech, I applied…

City by the book: Amazon/Manaus & Ibbotson

Perhaps my favourite read from my trip was, unsurprisingly, a children's book. Mid way through our trip we arrived in a small city close to the Colombian and Peruvian borders of Brazil - Tabatinga. From Tabatinga we took a four day boat to Manaus, a bustling city in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. While…