I love visiting Europe. It’s just so full of beautiful and
interesting things. I live on Cape York in tropical Queensland, twenty minutes from the Great
Barrier Reef. Cape York is about the same size as the UK, but we only have
~20,000 people. From here to the nearest supermarket is about 150 miles.
We drive past miles and miles of nothing to
get to Cairns, our nearest real town. When we fly to Europe on holiday and hire
a car, how many villages, people, cities, international borders would we have
passed driving the same distance?
I love the history on display everywhere,
something the locals take in their stride but is a matter of wonder to us poor
colonials. We have pubs, austere drinking halls with poker machines and large
screen televisions blaring sport 25 hours a day. They have cafés that really,
really want you to sit down over a coffee and cognac to discuss the world, art,
politics...
And the women! It gets hot at home, and
make-up just does not work well if your skin is continually moist. There is a
limit to the amount of clothing you can wear when the temperature climbs, but -
look - do the girls of Sicily and Spain go around in flip-flops, tired
tee-shirts and baggy shorts the way we do? Of course not. They are Europeans
and have style.
OK, so I’m being romantic, but Europe does romance too! Sophisticated
food, and romance to go with it? Just hold me back! I swear, if only they had
coconut palms like my garden, I would live in a garret and eat dried bread just
for the fun of living there.
Europe
in Love is just me putting some of my passions down
on paper, and I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed the writing. It
is a mix of ancient and modern, fact and fantasy, and you can read an excerpt here.
Better still, click this Christmas
Present to claim your free gift - a copy of Jacqueline and Another Sexy Year and
that will be a lot of fun!
Jacqueline lives in Far North Queensland, on the
shore of the Coral Sea. She keeps herself busy with her cats and garden, and by
writing books - some of which are far too naughty for her own good. You can
find out more about Jacqueline and her books at www.jacquelinegeorgewriter.com
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