Tag: Italy
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Rome – a classics nerd’s top 10
Rome is where my heart lies, when I go there I feel as my soul sings. Why? As a classics scholar it is the place that brings together almost all of my favourite sites and museums. Here I can imagine that I’m back in the age of the first emperor Augustus and that at any…
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“If adventures do not befall a lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad” – European Itinerary 2018
Jane Austen isn’t always the person I think of when I consider adventurous travel. Yet this quote from Austen’s Northanger Abbey (which I last read in my first year of university) resonates with me so deeply. Why do I travel? Why do I yearn to leave the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand to seek adventures…
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A little bit about me
Starting this blog is actually something that is quite scary for me. I’ve got a professional blog covering my life as a secondary school teacher in Auckland, New Zealand. That blog is chugging along nicely. However while I am a passionate teacher who actually enjoys writing about my professional life, I have wanted to write about…
The Peterson Odyssey 