Conservative Tendency

https://markenglish.substack.com/p/brief-travel-update-germany?r=3knty7 A few thoughts and personal impressions garnered from my twelve-week...

For the past fifteen months I have been travelling in Europe, staying successively in Greece, Bulgaria, Malta, England, Germany, Belgium an...

I haven't been writing much lately but it is important to me to keep some sort of diary going which is accessible to friends, relations ...

Here is a link to my latest Substack piece: https://markenglish.substack.com/p/towpath-reflections If this Substack site (called Parsing the...

Back in December, when I was in Sofia, I noticed a dark, more-or-less rectangular shape in my field of vision when I opened my right eye aft...

My first introduction to Malta was via my childhood stamp collection and some richly coloured, colonial-era stamps. Subsequently, as a stude...

My lack of knowledge of the Bulgarian language has made it difficult for me to get beyond a superficial understanding of the country but the...