I had noticed it for a couple of days, but had tried to ignore it. When passing her bed, there was a sour odour in the part of the entrance hall, where she was sleeping. That her food was left untouched wasn’t anything unusual – she had always been a reluctant eater, but now …
Category Archives: Travel
Too late to ski, too soon to run….
It had been a quiet day at the clinic – just a couple of spays and no consults this morning. A recent publication on Anthrax in beast and man, which I had read to while away the time, had been less than stimulating – just a nasty bugger of a disease you would hope …
Hamburg
The conversation with Ebeling wasn’t planned, nor was the encounter with the Baroque interior inside a Lutheran church or finding a set of concert halls inside a Tsunami….but in Hamburg these things just seem to happen…. I met Ebeling outside Carl Feddersen’s Sea Shop, enjoying the rest of his cigarette. “Just go in, I …
Two remarkable men
Over the last few weeks, I have made the acquaintance of two remarkable men. Unfortunately both are no longer with us, but they left a deep impact on me. Let me tell you more about them….. It was just before Christmas and as I was not signed up for a shift at the …
Emergencies
At the end of a year, filled with travelling, with meeting so many inspiring new people, with working once again in new places and with new teams, something I couldn’t have imagined when setting out on this journey five years ago, it was time for me to return to the UK and to open …
Säntis
It had only been a short walk from the clinic to the station and the yellow post bus left right on time. Of course it did…..this, after all was Switzerland ! I had been on emergency duty for the last 24 hours and had a day rest before starting another 24 hour shift. Thankfully …
Hotel Moskva
It was the piano music that I noticed first, while strolling down Terazije, one of the central boulevards in Belgrade, in October. Finding myself somewhat drained from another vet congress, where I had updated myself on how to remove gall bladders in dogs, how to endoscopically neuter chickens and how to dampen the blow …
Lunch with Goethe in Frauenfeld
Another day, another place and once again the realisation, that there is so much more to life than veterinary medicine….. It had been a busy morning at the small veterinary clinic in Frauenfeld, not far from the German border in the North of Switzerland, where I had been working in the beginning of October. …
4 hours to the Matterhorn
A cold front has moved in from the Atlantic and the mountains of the Northern Alps are covered in thick clouds with non-stop rain forecasted… I am in the middle of a two week locum at a veterinary clinic on the Toggenburger plateau, not far from Lake Constance. Not the best of prospects …
Bacalhau – Not just dried cod….
It had been of no avail……I was grounded on a small airstrip, hundreds of kilometres North of the Polar Circle….. Yes, it was true, that on the previous day, the wing of my plane to Oslo had clipped a building while taxiing at Gatwick airport, so that an alternative machine had to be found. …
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