I suppose you have to go away to really appreciate something. I went back to Brighton for a couple of weeks, having been away for over a year. I really appreciated being back in the city that I have always considered my spiritual home. I was lucky with the weather, it being pretty good on the whole, which for late October was a bit of a result. It's now a week later, and I'm back in Gozo - the weather here is gorgeous today, blue sky, the air clear and the light sharp as a pin. While back in the UK, storm Abigail is on it's way, supposedly the worst in over a year. Yet come December 15 I will relocate back to Brighton. Out walking this morning, some questions were raging about that decision. But nothing is permanent I told myself. Gozo has been great, but I need something different now, and Brighton is where I'm most likely to find it, assuming Abigail hasn't blown it away.
But I though as I was walking that I should make a tribute of sorts. Gozo has been my base for a number of years, and of course it was the inspiration for much of Naked Hero.
I've kind of moved on from that with the first in the Polar North series - North to South, which is totally set in Brighton and the surrounding area. But having finished that book, I don't want to leap into the second in the series as yet - that can wait until I'm based in Brighton. Meantime I'm going to take some trips down memory lane, returning to my favourite haunts on the island, perhaps taking a few snaps of my own to post on this blog, and recalling the scenes in Naked Hero they inspired. All very self-indulgent... and I'm going to enjoy every minute, even if no one bothers to share them with me.
J. K.
But I though as I was walking that I should make a tribute of sorts. Gozo has been my base for a number of years, and of course it was the inspiration for much of Naked Hero.
I've kind of moved on from that with the first in the Polar North series - North to South, which is totally set in Brighton and the surrounding area. But having finished that book, I don't want to leap into the second in the series as yet - that can wait until I'm based in Brighton. Meantime I'm going to take some trips down memory lane, returning to my favourite haunts on the island, perhaps taking a few snaps of my own to post on this blog, and recalling the scenes in Naked Hero they inspired. All very self-indulgent... and I'm going to enjoy every minute, even if no one bothers to share them with me.
J. K.