The solution to my blogging ills.

Well,  I bought a bluetooth keyboard to work with my iPhone so I can travel light and blog my way round on my trip. Alas, Blogger is not iPhone friendly regardless of the 4 browsers I used with Apps and whatever foolishness I tried.

Here is my solution...

Ahhhh.... that's better!

Only 1.2Kg and mere 26cm x 18cm. The size of an exercise book. $500 ... I wasn't expecting to throw away, but at least my blog can continue.


I have just spent an entire Saturday morning setting up Kaspersky and Nord VPN on my new laptop. Hot Tip: If you get Nord, and I recommend you do, when ever it says "Enter your email address" they mean UserName. So write your Username down somewhere. Oh! And don't use uppercase or special characters in your password because Nord's online database will shut down and sit in a corner and cry.

Blog on! 

Developing a style

One can not show one’s face in the land of the Renaissance with a paint brush and paper without having sorted out what the hell one will do with them.

I had dreams of painting water coulour everywhere, but it’s not always a convenient method, so I decided to go the pencil drawing then over wash with watercolour. I have also decided to halve the number of paints I take to slim down the luggage. I also had a dream of travelling with only carry on, but that is unfeasible. God, I hate checking in luggage!

Here is my new paint tin.

Here are a few sketches (I’ve been practicing).

This is a portrait of Michaelangelo Buonarroti.

This is a portrait of Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci.

This is the Santa Croce where the tombs of Michelangelo and Galileo are flamboyantly installed. (Plus cat tail!)

14 more sleeps!!!!

More on the bat-shit crazy way this blog is made on my iPhone:

It's not. It's impossible. I was about to start a rant on how I have assorted apps to help me edit my blog BUT!!!!! I just couldn't do it with my iPhone. I could create a post in BlogTouch, but couldn't add images or edit it once it was posted. Couldn't use Safari so I added Chrome... which wouldn't let me edit or add images either. Managed to find Puffin which allows me to scroll and add images... but editing the text is IMPOSSIBLE.

Argh! Maybe I should just buy a laptop?