I really loved your newsletter today. It really resounded with me. Up until now I have never been brave enough to take my sketch book on my hols, even after doing your drawing course. But in a couple of weeks Mr. W and myself are off to Valencia for a week and I’m determined to do some sketching. And be proud of my sketches however wonky they are. 😁. Wish me luck 😁😁
So pleased you enjoyed it Janine and do take a sketchbook with you. I usually pack a small box with just a few pens and pencils, coloured crayons and a glue stick and scissors. Sticking tickets etc down on the pages can also be a great way to starting filling up the book. Good luck and enjoy Valencia
My pleasure Lisa, I love your writing and look forward to the next instalment. I would love to do what you’re doing, it sounds like such an adventure. We drove through France to Italy a few years ago without any plan of our route or where we would stay, just using an old fashioned map and stopping wherever we were tired, hoping we’d find a vacancy for a room. It was great fun.
I’m so with you on this - big cruise ship? Even thinking about being contained, only able to walk laps around the decks. No "entertainment" or diversion offered could mask my total and utter boredom, but the sort of boredom that makes your skin itch. I’d be climbing the walls (or overboard!). Your cruise, however, sounds delightful - apart from the crowded destinations. And yep, how dare other people think of being on holiday at the same time?! This is why we go to NW Finistère and get blown inside out, never the south and the resorts. Shudder! Looking forward to seeing the quirky things that caught your eye next time. Swap you for my photos of seaweed and sketches of barnacles or marram grass! I never draw 'scenes' either…
Can’t think of anything worse than a big cruise, although many years ago I did accompany a school trip on a cruise around the Mediterranean… three teachers and thirty fifteen years olds. It was interesting! 🤨
I loved this piece, Gina. Having a sketchbook certainly does help pause and take notice in the way a camera never does. One of my greatest gripes of modern life is the now constant walking around with a phone, but not actually looking, especially in galleries, and like you, I want to scream at them! The Rhine does look very beautiful and I am so glad you had a lovely holiday.
Thank you Deborah. We obviously think alike. I’m now reading my copy of ‘Dear Reader’ and you were right I love it. I can’t put it down and there are so many books she recommends that I now want to read… or in some cases reread. Thank you for recommending it!
Hello, I thoroughly enjoyed this last newsletter of yours. I’ve been wanting to go on one of these boat rides, but like you can’t stand the idea of a mob aboard a gigantic cruiser. I also have a newsletter which I’ve wanted to share with you, but, it is best that you look at my Facebook page Emily Eve Weinstein and see if you like what I write. I actually took a class to figure out how to carry-on with a newsletter. Yours I feel are a bit less censored and that, I happen to really like. You break many of the rules of the class I took. Thank you for sharing all you do, Em
P.S. Please let me know if you would like to receive my newsletter. The last one is about the cicadas that have descended by the trillions in this area and landed in my work. Unsubscribe at anytime.
Hi Gina,
I really loved your newsletter today. It really resounded with me. Up until now I have never been brave enough to take my sketch book on my hols, even after doing your drawing course. But in a couple of weeks Mr. W and myself are off to Valencia for a week and I’m determined to do some sketching. And be proud of my sketches however wonky they are. 😁. Wish me luck 😁😁
So pleased you enjoyed it Janine and do take a sketchbook with you. I usually pack a small box with just a few pens and pencils, coloured crayons and a glue stick and scissors. Sticking tickets etc down on the pages can also be a great way to starting filling up the book. Good luck and enjoy Valencia
That’s a great idea. I’ll get myself a little pack organised
Xx
Thank you for the kind mention, Gina--and for the very enjoyable read! You've made me think I might need to learn to draw.
My pleasure Lisa, I love your writing and look forward to the next instalment. I would love to do what you’re doing, it sounds like such an adventure. We drove through France to Italy a few years ago without any plan of our route or where we would stay, just using an old fashioned map and stopping wherever we were tired, hoping we’d find a vacancy for a room. It was great fun.
I’m so with you on this - big cruise ship? Even thinking about being contained, only able to walk laps around the decks. No "entertainment" or diversion offered could mask my total and utter boredom, but the sort of boredom that makes your skin itch. I’d be climbing the walls (or overboard!). Your cruise, however, sounds delightful - apart from the crowded destinations. And yep, how dare other people think of being on holiday at the same time?! This is why we go to NW Finistère and get blown inside out, never the south and the resorts. Shudder! Looking forward to seeing the quirky things that caught your eye next time. Swap you for my photos of seaweed and sketches of barnacles or marram grass! I never draw 'scenes' either…
Can’t think of anything worse than a big cruise, although many years ago I did accompany a school trip on a cruise around the Mediterranean… three teachers and thirty fifteen years olds. It was interesting! 🤨
Oof, don’t even want to imagine what that was like 🤣
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Hello here is my last newsletter, I hope. Sending a link? The substack only allows. Normally they get sent to regular emails. Best, Em
I love the painting Em! We don’t have cicadas here but the sound of them on holiday is very evocative of being somewhere away from home x
I loved this piece, Gina. Having a sketchbook certainly does help pause and take notice in the way a camera never does. One of my greatest gripes of modern life is the now constant walking around with a phone, but not actually looking, especially in galleries, and like you, I want to scream at them! The Rhine does look very beautiful and I am so glad you had a lovely holiday.
Thank you Deborah. We obviously think alike. I’m now reading my copy of ‘Dear Reader’ and you were right I love it. I can’t put it down and there are so many books she recommends that I now want to read… or in some cases reread. Thank you for recommending it!
Isn't it marvellous? I am so glad you liked it. I now want to read her other books!
Hello, I thoroughly enjoyed this last newsletter of yours. I’ve been wanting to go on one of these boat rides, but like you can’t stand the idea of a mob aboard a gigantic cruiser. I also have a newsletter which I’ve wanted to share with you, but, it is best that you look at my Facebook page Emily Eve Weinstein and see if you like what I write. I actually took a class to figure out how to carry-on with a newsletter. Yours I feel are a bit less censored and that, I happen to really like. You break many of the rules of the class I took. Thank you for sharing all you do, Em
P.S. Please let me know if you would like to receive my newsletter. The last one is about the cicadas that have descended by the trillions in this area and landed in my work. Unsubscribe at anytime.
Thank you Emily, I’m so pleased you are enjoying my writing. I’d love to know what rules I’m breaking but maybe it’s for the best I don’t 😂
At least this way you are getting ‘my voice’ rather than something I think I ought to be doing! I’ll have a look at what you are writing too!