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.

  • No public googleplus messages.

Tweet Blender

@GeorgeMonbiot Ice on your windscreen in February is not the strongest argument for global warming.
6 days ago
RT @paulkingsnorth: In an actually sane nation, an endorsement from Donald Trump would surely kill any political career stone dead.
6 days ago
RT @guardian: Friday's @guardian front page – 1.2 million: the hidden toll of malaria deaths http://t.co/jTMjXlVH #stopmalarianow
6 days ago
@rachiesparrow Brrr. Cold :-)
6 days ago
The happy secret to better work and study: New #TED talk: http://t.co/EkJoKvv1
6 days ago

Stet in a cloud

Ria fotografia

Photo Galleries

Now hear dis!

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.

Stet is a proud member of


    expatriate

Contact

Ria[dot]Bacon[at]gmail.com

Getting away from it all?

We left Jamaica almost a month ago, leaving behind water and power shortages and the threat of hurricanes. We’re ending our break in Europe with other, unexpected hazards.

Groningen rocked by ‘record’ earthquake

8 August 2006

AMSTERDAM — An earthquake shook the north of the Netherlands early on Tuesday morning. Measuring 3.5 on the Richter Scale, it was equal in strength to the strongest earthquake on record in the northern Netherlands.

(Read more …)

And just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water …

Botulism in the Netherlands

In spite of all this, I’m an optimist who always sees the glass half full, or better still, just full.

Leffe pwns Heineken

(Big up to the visitors from the Jamaicans.com forum. Feel free to leave more of your flattering comments directly here.)

Related posts:

  1. Sans everything
  2. We zijn d’r bijna, we zijn d’r bijna
  3. The man who was buried twice
  4. La bella figura
  5. Grimm times
  • Mad Ooman

    I’d like to think I was the first ja.commer to visit your blog. I saw the “Friday evening in Kingston” video on youtube and eventaully tracked you down here. I have been a fan since my first glimps of the video.

    I have been posting links to your BLOG all over the place on the jamaicans.com forum.

    I am glad to see the shout-out! I really and truly love you blog.

  • http://ban-sidhe.com/blog/ Mathieu

    Dang, dey’z sum heavy fandom in Jamaica!

    Enjoy Europe, where are you off to next?

  • http://www.livingfordisco.com rachie

    Ooooh leffe. Almost worth earthquakes and botulism I think.

  • http://www.madbull4.net/weblog/ Mad Bull

    Mad Ooman, you are not the first… ah so it go, ‘Oney.

  • Mad Ooman

    Mad Bull. Alas, you are probably right.

    But I can “like to think” whatever I want. :)