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Congratulations Shafik! 🙌🏻🥂

01.03.2026 10:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

All those things might help but price is the overwhelming factor in choosing plane over train…

27.02.2026 09:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just finished it too. Absolutely wonderful 💗

23.02.2026 22:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 52;
Yes, you are a proper writer if you also have a day job. Nearly all writers have day jobs.

21.02.2026 18:25 — 👍 183 🔁 27 💬 4 📌 2

These are brilliant, Kim! I love lino prints 👌

16.02.2026 19:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Fast forward to spring in Provence … My latest for @theguardian.com
🌼🌼🌸🌷💐

16.02.2026 09:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh no! Even worse! No, exactly. Rule #1 of inviting travel writers: don’t poison them 😂

15.02.2026 16:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh poor you!

14.02.2026 21:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

And a fairy. 🧚 (It’s Peter Pan 2.0)

30.01.2026 09:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

🥐Apparently next Friday (Jan 20th) is national croissant day. Who knew?
The Savoy has a fancy bakery attached. They are giving out "at least 200" free croissants next Friday morning.

23.01.2026 16:37 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

22.01.2026 07:43 — 👍 6602 🔁 3325 💬 278 📌 187

So cute!

21.01.2026 22:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That sounds like the perfect antidote to *everything*

19.01.2026 20:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I bet they made her to do it to secure the meeting 🤨

16.01.2026 08:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Boo, hoped it was Costa del Cotswolds 🤣

09.01.2026 16:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Are you UK-bound? 🤞🏻

09.01.2026 14:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My feed is full of Paris in the snow… it looks magical ✨

05.01.2026 16:40 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

He was our arch-nemesis on the student union council when I worked on the student newspaper at uni. Plus ça change 😆

05.01.2026 11:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Literally just said the same 🫣

03.01.2026 09:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Indeed. Deliberately not posting about her. The Guardian included some of the ugly bits, thankfully.

28.12.2025 19:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh yes… same on the Comté 🙌🏻

27.12.2025 23:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh no!! Sending love xxx

27.12.2025 22:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh we’re so sorry to hear that, our thoughts with you all. Extra sad after losing Paul Sartin too 😢

26.12.2025 22:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How much?? 😂😂😂

24.12.2025 15:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I absolutely despise wrapping presents.

21.12.2025 19:54 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Have yourself a French-ish Christmas It's not too late to give your celebration a touch of joie de vivre, inspired by our French friends.

New France Traveller out today, full if cheats and boozy suggestions for the too-busy French food lover… open.substack.com/pub/francetr...

20.12.2025 10:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Wow, now that’s a contest…

17.12.2025 22:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Love it, M! Absolutely gorgeous x

13.12.2025 10:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ah ok… sounds good, even just for those shots! 😜

04.12.2025 22:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh I need to watch! It’s Sawday’s isn’t it?

04.12.2025 20:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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