Adventures by Miss Adventure

  • The Gipsies (title Chapter four of She Travelled alone in Spain)

    “Academically, you should not consider Granada until Cadiz, Cordoba, and Seville have been visited. But when it comes to buying a kilometric railway ticket for your travel you are forced to abandon the romantic idea of flowing from the south in the track of the Moorish invaders … train travelling there is not cheap enough Read more

  • Dog of a day

    Today’s blog was going to be about Nina and me, but after the day I have had, it is more about me. As usual. Truth be known, I haven’t read the whole of She Travelled Alone in Spain as yet. I am reading it as I go. People have exclaimed “you’re mad!” – and that Read more

  • Food and the brown paper bag

    There is one thing that I have found that I simply cannot agree with Nina on. Spanish food. Nina seems to loathe it. Perhaps it is because Nina travelled during such impoverished times for the people of Spain. Nina was travelling through Spain at the end of the Great Depression and in the lead up Read more

  • Wandering about in Ronda

    On the afternoon of my arrival, I did what Nina did. I walked around the streets exploring. Through the narrow passageways and laneways of the cobblestoned streets of the old town. I looked at the incredible  breath-taking rural views of the Gorgo de Tajo and the rural landscapes out past the gorge. With hundreds of Read more

  • The journey begins – in Nina’s footsteps

    “If, for a thousand pounds, something was offered with magic in it enough to last a lifetime, there are people who would merely say: “A thousand pounds! That is a lot of money!” before turning sanely away. But there are others who would agonize after the magic thing, even to the point of jeopardizing their Read more

  • My friend Nina … and North Africa

    There is a small biography on Nina Murdoch on Wikipedia and in the Australian Dictionary of Biography. It is the standard biography and covers facts such as where Nina was born, North Carlton; where Nina grew up – Woodburn in Northern NSW, not far from where my family live; who Nina married journalist Adams McCay; Read more