Katy's Ramblings

Ego soup

Ego soup

(an extract from my travel journals) “There are three basic rules of travelling. Travel on the ground. Travel alone. Keep notes. That’s it.” - Paul Theroux  The more I thought...
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A short note on writing

A short note on writing

You may have noticed by the amount of typos in my blog posts that I’m not a writer by trade. In fact, if truth be told I only started writing for fun...
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A short note on daydreaming

A short note on daydreaming

Until my mental breakdown, I lived the majority of my life in my daydreams. Everyday life was something I vaguely partook in, just enough to get by, but my heart...
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A poem about warming climates

A poem about warming climates

Warming climates - Sometimes I cry so ferociously it feels like a glacier has melted inside me. Carving out deep empty valleys in its wake.  Perhaps me and nature are...
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A poem about kindness

A poem about kindness

"Be kind" they said at the beginning of the year, But how quickly they forgot when the hashtag disappeared. "Kindness? Hah whats that going to achieve reeeally? Sounds like a...
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Growing up ginger

Growing up ginger

From having a water bottle thrown at my head out the window of a speeding car accompanied by ginger slurs to being spat at in the street by kids from my school. I've had it all and there's no denying the impact my hair colour has had on my personality development. 
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Things to do in 3 days in Marseille plus my Unite D'habitation Hotel Review

My Unite D'habitation Hotel Review & Things to do in Marseille in 3 days

My Unite D'habitation Hotel Review: Myself and my partner are both HUGE brutalist architecture fanatics and particular fans of the works of French architect Le Corbusier. So it seemed only natural that we stay in his 1950's Cité radieuse (meaning radiant city), the most famous of his string of modernist residential housing developments following the same design principle.  
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A poem about Autumn

A poem about Autumn

Autumn -  Pink skies as summer cries's it's last goodbyes. 
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