Keith Hern

Pitigliano, Tuscany – what a find!
Published March 29, 2013 - No Comments
Looking for somewhere new to visit on last weekend’s trip to Tuscany research picked up the town of Pitigliano, and from the photographs the location looked stunning so a night was booked at the Hostaria Del Ceccottina in the older part of town. Situated on the edge of a steep escarp ...
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Waldlust Hotel, Freudenstadt – delapidated splendour.
Published March 5, 2013 - No Comments
Busy tracing my wife’s family history took us to Freudenstadt, specifically the Waldlust Schlosshotel where her grandfather had worked as a gardener back in the 1950s. Enquiries led to a local contact who volunteered to meet us there and show us around a hotel that had been closed fo ...
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Staying With The Ghost of Baden Baden
Published February 28, 2013 - No Comments
‘Just get to Baden Baden and ask, everyone knows where the castle is’ said the manager when calling to confirm our booking. Everyone that is except for the two couples we stopped to ask, mind you one did turn out to be a Far Eastern tourist! Eventually we found the road and dro ...
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Tuscany and Zimbabwe to the fore this week!
Published February 19, 2013 - No Comments
Travel photography has been right at the front of recent activity, planning trips, having initial discussions on where I might be able to speak about it, and the next travel photography book. Having visited Tuscany twice a year for the past eight years or so it’s a place I simply nev ...
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Non-medical approaches to cancer
Published February 8, 2013 - 16 Comments
Having found myself increasingly looking outside the ‘standard’ medical treatments for cancer, I have the impression there maybe an interest in what I’ve found, what I work with and what is currently under research – okay, given my current situation of surprising th ...
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Scan results, cancer tumour update, mental mayhem!
Published February 1, 2013 - 2 Comments
The last blog I wrote on this subject was the 18th January, about the PET scan and the pre-result nerves, so it seemed appropriate to provide an update as last Thursday the 24th was results day. The alarm goes early at 5.20, as every week I do a yoga class that starts at 6.15, great [...]
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Swaziland – what a hidden gem!
Published January 26, 2013 - 2 Comments
Leaving the Kruger National Park behind our small, but select, group arrived at the Swaziland border post to complete the requisite paperwork to enter the country, and then had a couple of hours drive to get to our hotel. The sun was out, the sky blue, and we were driving through vibrant g ...
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Latest PET scan….and that nervous wait for the results on the cancerous tumour….
Published January 18, 2013 - 13 Comments
It was back up to London yesterday for the latest PET scan to see what has happened to the tumour in my right lung in the two months since I was last there. There’s always a slight degree of nerves, I know I should be used to it by now, but the mind wanders down [...]
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Off to the Kruger National Park
Published January 1, 2013 - No Comments
Leaving behind the lion sanctuary and Johannesburg it was a drive of four or so hours down to Hazyview, a few minutes from the entrance to the Kruger. Off to a good start when I discovered I’d parted company with my malaria pills, which started an interesting chat with my American tr ...
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Johannesburg & Soweto – times are changing…
Published December 23, 2012 - No Comments
The recent eight day visit to South Africa and Swaziland began with a couple of days in Johannesburg, a city I had only got ever out of quickly, so this could be quite enlightening. The coverage Johannesburg gets in the UK is not exactly positive as it focuses on how dangerous a place the ...
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Pitigliano, Tuscany – what a find!

Published March 29, 2013 at 6:07 pm - No Comments

Looking for somewhere new to visit on last weekend’s trip to Tuscany research picked up the town of Pitigliano, and from the photographs the location looked stunning so a night was booked at the Hostaria Del Ceccottina in the older part of town. Situated on the edge of a steep escarpment the setting is certainly [...]

Waldlust Hotel, Freudenstadt – delapidated splendour.

Published March 5, 2013 at 8:49 am - No Comments

Busy tracing my wife’s family history took us to Freudenstadt, specifically the Waldlust Schlosshotel where her grandfather had worked as a gardener back in the 1950s. Enquiries led to a local contact who volunteered to meet us there and show us around a hotel that had been closed for years, and turned out to be [...]

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Pitigliano, Tuscany – what a find!Published March 29, 2013 at 6:07 pm
What to do in Frankfurt in 24 hours…..Published March 21, 2013 at 1:08 pm
Waldlust Hotel, Freudenstadt – delapidated splendour.Published March 5, 2013 at 8:49 am
Staying With The Ghost of Baden BadenPublished February 28, 2013 at 7:37 pm
Tuscany and Zimbabwe to the fore this week!Published February 19, 2013 at 9:21 am