Amelia's Blog

For my bit of silliness today, I am again challenging myself to write a short piece taking my inspiration from a website that generates...

Hello, hello, hello! What do we have 'ere then? Plantar fasciitis! Oh, dearie me. Also known as Policeman's heel, Plantar fasciitis is a...

The First World Book Day in Wolfsberg On the 23rd of April, the city council in Wolfsberg will be hosting the first World Book Day on the...

A few months ago the administrators of the Facebook group the British in Austria asked me to write about the area where I now live in...

This week my Guest Blogger is the children's author Martina Graf; her pen name is Martina Schmerlaib (I am jealous I have always wanted...

Many of you read Sam Richard’s excellent blog post about Imogen Holst, which I published on my site a few weeks ago. Sam has returned to...

In 2020 I wrote a blog asking how many previous lives have you had? I wrote this partly because I am a firm believer in the concept and...

I am delighted to bring you another superb blog from my Guest Blogger Sam Richards. Sam is based in Totnes in South Devon; amongst other...

Over the past few years, I have grown to like blogging. I collect ideas and images, think about what may interest my readers, and jot my...

I usually walk the designated 10,000 steps a day either in my garden or in the hills and mountains of Southern Austria, where I now live....

There is always hope. It may be a cliché but hope does lift us up - maybe Shakespeare is one of the first writers to use such an analogy....

This is just a little update about the crowdfunding campaign that we began working on in January and launched in April. We launched our...

The Beautiful, The Sublime, and Me: Walking On the Malvern Hills and in Southern Austria During the three years that I was writing my...

"There is a willow grows aslant a brook" Shakespeare, Nature and Mental Health By Amelia Marriette During the height of the Corona Virus,...

(auf Deutsch) Unsere Startnext-Kampagne ist geöffnet! Ich möchte mein erfolgreiches Buch Walking into Alchemy als deutsche Ausgabe...

Amelia Marriette was working as a Curator in a museum in South Devon in the UK; this was her dream job. Suddenly, the local council made...

My article about the Gustav Holst Way appears in the January 2021 edition of Cotswold Life Magazine – you still have time to grab a copy!...

Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green,...

It’s the time of year when, like most of us, I feel reflective and perhaps even a little melancholy. Have I achieved all that I wanted to...

When I relocated from South Devon in the UK to Bad Sankt Leonhard in the Carinthian region of Austria in 2015 one of the things I was...