Blog: 2014

IONIAN IDYLL SAILING AMONGST THE GREEK ISLANDS

  • Posted on: 1 November 2014
  • By: Aline Dobbie

In early October Graham and I flew out to Preveza from Manchester to arrive at Nidri where we had arranged to sail for a week.  The Thomson Airlines flight was trouble free and we transferred to Nidri which is a town on the coast of the island of Lefkada or Lefkas in the Ionian group of Greek Islands.

DUBROVNIK, CROATIA AND A PEEK AT MONTENEGRO

  • Posted on: 31 October 2014
  • By: Aline Dobbie
Dubrovnik is a city that captured my imagination way back when I was very young.  It had the same sense of romance and history that it shares with Venice, Prague, Krakow and places like Lucca in Italy.  That it was designated a World Heritage Site is a great relief because in our living memory the city and its citizens had experienced severe challenges….which thankfully are now well behind them all.
 

The XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow

  • Posted on: 5 August 2014
  • By: Aline Dobbie

Sitting waiting on a gloriously hot evening in Glasgow for the Opening Ceremony of the Commonwealth Games was an interesting experience.  I am accredited as press to these Games because I am on the editorial board of a magazine called India Link International and you can immediately see the relevance of me being able to cover the Games for the Indian Diaspora.  However, I do not see myself as a journalist so it was a new experience being amongst the international press.  Graham my husband was sitting down in another part of the stadium within visual distanc

The Fall of Singapore

  • Posted on: 19 January 2014
  • By: Aline Dobbie

The Railway Man is a powerful and poignant film showing the extreme cruelty of the Japanese after the surrender of the British and Indian Forces fighting in the Malayan Peninsula and retreating down into Singapore.