Italy is where we laugh, and eat. Italy is where the people are so funny and generous and kind that I begin to believe I am an invited guest on this holiday. 

London is where people talk about the weather: how unbearably hot it is now and how cold it was before.

As I travelled, on a surprisingly cold summer’s day away from the pristine skies of Cape Town to this new life in this new land – I looked back...

Lesvos is your arms wrapped, like the wings of an almighty angel, around us all. It is the sun shimmering, like diamonds on the surface of the sea