Margaret R Kelly

Margaret R Kelly – Writer & Travelling Raconteur 

I write. I travel. I read. I learn. I dream and I live my dream.

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  • More Thoughts on Writing

    More Thoughts on Writing

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    Margaret Kelly
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    I write lots of different things, but I write books for the same reason we read them—to find out what happens next. As carefully as I plan it, I never know, going into a story, exactly how it will end, nor even what twists the plot may take away from what I’ve planned. This makes…

  • Ten To-See-or-not-to-See Destinations in Paris

    Ten To-See-or-not-to-See Destinations in Paris

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    Margaret Kelly
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    Every first-time traveller to Paris hears about the same bucket-list places: the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Versailles… For me, the list of must-see-and-practise-French sights/sites was formed by passages in the French textbooks we used at school. Those stops were unavoidable—the stuff of dreams— but for other people, they turn into overrated, crowded, or disappointing experiences.…

  • A Bavarian Fairytale: Castle Neuschwanstein

    A Bavarian Fairytale: Castle Neuschwanstein

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    Margaret Kelly
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    Sometimes, I wish I was an artist. I’d specialise in train-window vistas. We’ve just travelled through the snowy Bavarian countryside to Germany’s deep south, where Neuschwanstein (‘Noik-sh-wonn-sty-n’), the inspiration for Disneyland’s Sleeping Beauty castle, perches on the edge of a rugged gorge in the foothills of the Alps. It’s early January and the three ‘viewing…