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| Pompey's Theatre - site of Julius Caesar's assassination |
Rome itself was wonderful and we managed to see pretty much everything on our to do list, eat nice pizza, drink good wine, and enjoy lovely gelato! I was reading I,Claudius by Robert Graves while there and it was fun to be able to stand in Claudius' footsteps.
We had pretty good weather while our visitors were up and had some nice walks and nature watching trips - mum even got to see bearded tits feeding in the reedbeds which was an experience high on her wish list.
Book-wise nothing hugely stood out for me this month, none were bad but nothing to really shout about - although the next instalment in the Kamagawa Food Detectives series was just as good as the others and probably the best Japanese book I've read this year.
I visited 7 countries by book this month and new to me were The Philippines, Türkiye, and the Faroe Islands. I also read a book set in Antarctica but that doesn't appear on my map so I've crossed off the tiny dots in the Southern Ocean that Blight mentions in her book Where the Earth Meets the Sky
Book group is off to Türkiye in November and I think I might need to try and squeeze in another book as Madonna in a Fur Coat was really far more about Germany in the 1920s/30s than Turkey...
Taking a look at my world map I think that I might have to start looking for books set in the various American states as a priority otherwise its going to start being very hard to see any progress I'm making!
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| Scratch off World Map progress November 2026 |
