by Clare Flynn | Jul 7, 2020
I didn’t expect to like Acapulco so much. While it had seemed exotic, luxurious and enticing when I was a teenager and it still had a reputation as the playground of the stars, more recently I’d heard it wasn’t very nice at all. This impression was...
by Clare Flynn | Jun 8, 2020
Three days after the Panama Canal we reached Guatemala. I was feeling tired after a cold and a sleepless night. I accidentally stepped on someone’s toe at the meeting point for the excursion I was doing and got my head chewed off by my victim despite my abject...
by Clare Flynn | May 9, 2020
I’ve been neglecting this blog. I can’t blame You-Know-What, as the last post I made was on March 1st and I didn’t go into isolation until 19th March, just ahead of the official lockdown on 23rd. Anyway, I came across the journal I kept on my Round...
by Clare Flynn | Jul 12, 2019
While I was ending the third month of my four-month Round the World voyage, one of my old friends, Peter, asked me the following question on Facebook. “Clare, several of your novels feature long ocean voyages (in very different times) – having circumnavigated...
by Clare Flynn | Oct 22, 2017
Apart from planned trips to India and Australia to research two of my books, these days I usually plan my holidays around painting – choosing locations I’ve never visited before and where I think there might be interesting landscapes. There have however been two short...
