In 2014, Musings and Mosaics began as a blog to share my solo month in Italy with friends and family back home. I continued writing on later trips to the UK, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and Belgium.
Two excellent post-pandemic trips, a biking tour around the Mekong Delta in Vietnam and my third foray around Greece, have inspired me to post again. Not only to post again but to make Musings and Mosaics its own website, and a sister-site to my Roman History website and blog, romanfootprints.com
Who Am I?
I’m Margo from Vancouver Island, who is passionate about history and travel. I’ve always liked to travel. Early trips were an eye-opening school trip to the Soviet Union in 1973; my first solo trip at 19 years old to Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City; and a five-month backpacking tour around Europe in 1981.
I may have inherited the travel bug from my late mother Olive, who at 94 went on a tour with her 93 year old friend up the coast of British Columbia and back down through the interior. And at 96 took a cruise to Tahiti. Sitting on a balcony overlooking the beach on Maui in 2012, she confessed to me that she felt she could have been a gypsy. Though that term may be inappropriate now, what she meant was she had a lifelong wanderlust and loved a good change of scenery.
I share her wanderlust, and it has been passed on to my daughter Tamara, who is always on the go. And since hiking along Hadrian’s Wall in northern England together in 2012, we have gone travelling somewhere every year.
