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Ria Bacon: editor & writer

Linguist with wanderlust,
From the hills of New Guinea to the halls of the Sorbonne,
From the beaches of Bassam to the fields of Friesland,
From the catacombs of Rome to the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.
From the heather of the Veluwe to the dust of Dakar ...

Currently resident in the Land of Sea with a small tribe of kids and Mr B.

FYI

Stet means "Let it stand" and is used by editors to indicate that the original text should be left untouched.

...in Arcadia ego is a pun on a painting by Poussin.

Contact

Ria[dot]Bacon[at]gmail.com

Stet in a cloud

Ria fotografia

Photo Galleries

Gallery One

Ria Galleria

Now hear dis!

Stet is a proud member of

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    BERJAYABERJAYABERJAYABERJAYA

    expatriate

Schiphol

We arrived at sunrise in a two-car convoy from the northern provinces. Laden with a multitude of luggage, we bore down on terminal two and yea there we wept when we saw the mighty snaking queue at British Airways. And so it was that fellow traveller smote fellow traveller and appendages were crushed

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October 27th, 2005 | Tags: | Category: Leaving this place, The nether lands | 3 comments

Wilma welcome yu wit a splash

Just checking in briefly. Gotta dash and see more houses for rent. Kids’ first day at school, first time in uniform. Mighty cute.

Been stranded at the airport, flooded out of our hotel, bamboozled by real estate agents, but tings are lookin better already.

It’s stopped raining.

More later

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October 26th, 2005 | Tags: | Category: Fnuky Kingston | 3 comments

We zijn d’r bijna, we zijn d’r bijna

Maar nog niet helemaal!

Altogether now …

It’s a Dutch thing.

>>>The clock’s ticking, in three days we’ll be flying off to Funky Kingston.

Oh, but we haven’t got any tickets.

It was hard enough getting a booking through the office in Jamaica. Frantic emails shot across the Atlantic: “A BA traveller class

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October 11th, 2005 | Tags: , | Category: Leaving this place, Photos, The nether lands | 3 comments