by Susie | Jul 14, 2017 | Food, Memories, Places To Visit, Travel, Uncategorized
Having already been to the United Arab Emirates in April for a Desert Reunion and having the most super time, staying at the Al Ain Hilton and meeting-up again with old friends, travelling with my youngest Son Jo and reliving the time we spent there in this desert...
by Susie | May 12, 2017 | Memories, Places To Visit, Poems of Places, Travel, Uncategorized
Desert Days. To walk on desert sands, to feel the warmth of the rust coloured grains between your toes, the magic of this gentle land will steal your heart to return once more… this land will embrace you, it will fill your eyes with wondrous visions, this torpid...
by Susie | May 10, 2017 | Memories, Places To Visit, Travel, Uncategorized
“No man can live this life and emerge unchanged, he will carry however faint, the imprint of the desert, the brand which marks the nomad; and he will have within him the yearning to return, weak or insistent according to his nature. For this cruel land can...
by Susie | Jan 13, 2017 | Memories, Places To Visit, Travel, Uncategorized
The months fly by or so it seems these days. It can hardly be almost three years since the last desert reunion and my poem written of this time, of our meeting in London, but it is. This coming April I plan to return to the desert once again back to the garden city of...
by Susie | Sep 14, 2016 | In Death, Love poems, Memories, Places To Visit, Poetry, Travel, Uncategorized
I walked in the early morning sun and thought of you… I was filling my mind, I was contemplating a plan you know, the sort that gives you joy, faraway places the sand between your toes, that kind of plan. You invaded my mind as you often do, I saw you clearly,...
by Susie | Aug 18, 2016 | Memories, Poems of Places, Travel
Tuk Tuk Blues skies into long sultry nights draws us back once more music plays “this guys in love with you”, cascades the water and pours its charms through and down under tiny coin filled bridge. Tan men, beautiful ladies, the smell of sun, cologne and...
