Ria Bacon: editor & writer

Linguist with wanderlust,
From the hills of New Guinea to the halls of the Sorbonne,
From the beaches of Bassam to the fields of Friesland,
From the catacombs of Rome to the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.
From the heather of the Veluwe to the dust of Dakar ...

Currently resident in the Land of Sea with a small tribe of kids and Mr B.

FYI

Stet means "Let it stand" and is used by editors to indicate that the original text should be left untouched.

...in Arcadia ego is a pun on a painting by Poussin.

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Waterbeds

(Delayed post because of failed migration to new Web site.

Tip: do not attempt to emigrate both blog and family simultaneously.)

…….

As I mentioned previously, on the third night in Jamaica, we were flooded out of our hotel.

It was the fault of Hurricane Wilma, who had teetered back and forth over the Cayman Islands like a wobbly child

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November 8th, 2005 | Tags: , | Category: Fnuky Kingston | 4 comments

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Don’t look yet

This is the first design foolings for my blog, currently running on blogspot.

Come back in a few weeks … if Jamaican telecom has connected me by then.

Soon come

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November 8th, 2005 | Tags: | Category: Metablogging | Leave a comment

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If you go down to Spanish Town

Missed my first blogiversary. Never mind. Way too busy with getting the house ready, transfering the utilities, buying a car, buying a stove, washer and dryer, juggling finances across four countries … good news is that we may have our stuff through customs by the weekend and we won’t need to sleep on the floor (the

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November 2nd, 2005 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Fnuky Kingston, Photos | 14 comments

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  • URBAN GYPSY
    November 3, 2005 at 6:57 am · Reply

    Hate B.A. (Bastard Airlines) but love Schiphol airport. Used to fly that way from being the Middle East when all the kidnappings and bombs were happening and to this day, I still maintain that I felt safer in Saudi Arabia – day-to-day – that I ever did in England. I hope you get on very well with Kingston. Walk with your head held high and a bolshy, confident step and they’ll leave you alone, trust me.

    Loving the photo of the billboard :-)

  • vit
    November 4, 2005 at 9:28 am · Reply

    that billboard is about to be copied (by me) all over portugal

  • rachie
    November 4, 2005 at 7:07 am · Reply

    Love the billboard.

    Security briefings are meant to put the wind up you, I’m sure – ours was a pretty unsettling. For weeks I was convinced that I was going to be followed around town by knife-wielding pick-pockets, burgled nightly, and abducted by evil taxi drivers for unspeakable purposes.

    Kingston does sound a little more… ‘lively’ than Windhoek though.

    Keep safe, and keep us posted!

  • Intergalactic Gladiator
    November 4, 2005 at 2:30 pm · Reply

    Very nice billboard. It must be neat there, despite the scares. I hope everything goes well and all.

    Here via Michele’s.

  • kenju
    November 4, 2005 at 11:51 am · Reply

    I hope the weather and the scenery make up for the violence!

  • Flower
    November 5, 2005 at 11:34 am · Reply

    Hey Ria,

    Gotta love that billboard, thank you for sharing. And I’m sure Kingston will grow on you. Hang in there and keep blogging, always a joy to read.

  • Zinnia Cyclamen
    November 7, 2005 at 6:23 am · Reply

    Happy Belated Blogiversary. Love the billboard, and Desmond Dekker – saw him live earlier this year, what a terrific gig that was. The situation there sounds dire. Hope you stay safe.

  • mar
    November 7, 2005 at 3:53 am · Reply

    happy belated. Here via Michele’s, are you from Friesland???? Otto fan?

  • Ria
    November 7, 2005 at 5:23 am · Reply

    We stayed in Friesland for ten weeks in between moving from Rome to Kingston (my in-laws live there).

    Otto who?

  • Flavia
    November 8, 2005 at 4:45 am · Reply

    Sounds scary but I love your eternal cheerfulness.
    Thanks for sharing all the lovely photos..and great billboard..

  • Half Swede
    November 10, 2005 at 1:21 pm · Reply

    You are an expert mover, well done. Best of luck as you settle in and stay safe. Happy blogiversary!

  • Luuk
    November 19, 2005 at 12:30 pm · Reply

    Hope you are settling in nicely.
    Love,
    Luuk,Nico,Timo

  • Stet » Blog Archive » Another don bites the dust
    February 9, 2006 at 7:13 pm · Reply

    [...] Another shooting, another riot, another curfew in Spanish Town, Jamaica’s former capital city, situated some ten miles west of Kingston. The town exploded in violence again yesterday following the assassination of Andrew “Bun Man” Hope, leader of the One Order gang. The leader of rival gang, Donovan “Bulbie” Bennett of the Clansmen, was killed by police last October (see post). [...]

  • rafjam
    July 26, 2006 at 6:50 pm · Reply

    Je n’ai pu m’empêcher de copier ta photo que je trouve géniale!!! Mais, faute avouée à moitié pardonnée, non?
    Sérieusement, merci pour ce site sur lequel je m’amuse, je déguste les magnifiques photos et retiens plein d’informations qui me seront plus qu’utiles lors de mon arrivée imminente…

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