Amelia's Blog

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 As the weather begins to improve and...

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

Following redundancy, I relocated to Austria. By coincidence, my father, Leonard Eason, was stationed at RAF Klagenfurt in the Kärnten (Carinthian in English) Region of Austria between 1946 and 48. By coincidence, my father, Leonard Eason, was stationed at RAF Klagenfurt in the Kärnten (Carinthian in English) Region of Austria between 1946 and 48. This is an extract about my father from my book Walking into Alchemy: The Transformative Power of Nature.

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...

When I was appointed as the Curator of the Holst Birthplace Museum in Cheltenham in 2004, I began what will probably be a lifelong quest...

Hello, my name is Amelia Marriette, and I am a walker. I freely admit it. I am addicted, and there seems to be no cure. Much of my life...

Dr Kerri Andrew's new book Wanderers: A History of Women Walking is a long-overdue work and is a very welcome addition to the canon. Dr...

At the beginning of the virus, I was like most people afraid and worried. But most of us believed that it would all be over by the autumn...