When a hole in the wall in Valencia becomes the home for the cities feline residents….
Category Archives: Travel
Santiago Calatrava – 2nd take
An unexpected second encounter with Santiago Calatrava’s work in Valencioa, Spain while riding a Dutch shopping bicycle….
Nook’s final walk
It was at the end of another locum placement high in the Swiss mountains, when Joana, one of the nurses, entered the consulting room. There would be the euthanasia of an old Husky and the owners were asking, if I would mind coming to their farm to put their dog to sleep…. “Of course, I …
Wedged between two emperors
The weather forecast had been too good and with no other commitments that day, I had grabbed my hiking gear, had jumped into my beaten-up BMW and taken the motorway heading south….. With the border to Tyrol just a few kilometres away, what beckoned was the massif of the two emperors – the …
The gospel of Padre Guilherme
A pilrimage to the Abbey of Maredsous to enjoy the somewhat unusual gospel of Padre Guilherme…
Across Electric Avenue for breakfast
A morning run along the Pembrokeshire Coast
Six-hundred meters to a Swiss Rösti
Recalling an epic noctural hike in the Swiss Alps to get a genuine “Rösti” on an exposed mountain cabin
Concrete, consulting rooms and the legacy of Le Corbusier
How the world of Le Corbusier might have affected modern veterinary clinic design, not only in Switzerland…..
All my patients are under the bed
The unexpected encounter with a memorable read
Not leaving without my cat…..
My scarabaean transition from the world of veterinary medicine to the afterlife of animals in ancient Egypt at the Grand Egyptian Museum
