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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

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Ria Galleria

Now hear dis!

Stet is a proud member of

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Not Cuba

Just finished Skypeing with a prospective landlady ahead of our move in four days. It wasn’t the most coherent of conversations as she kept breaking off and shouting in W_____ (local language) at the noisy mob of women surrounding her. She ended every phrase with, “Inch’allah!” — not sure if this is a positive

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February 26th, 2008 | Tags: | Category: Leaving this place | 4 comments

On the road again, again

Diptheria, tetanus & polio booster? — check! Hepatitus A & B? — check! Meningitis ACWY? — check! Rabies I, II & III? — check! Typhus fever? — check! Mantoux test? — check! TB — check! Yellow fever? — check! Malaria tablets? — check!

We feel like a family of pincushions after all the vaccinations

Continue reading On the road again, again

February 19th, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: Leaving this place | 3 comments