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Operations Lead for English Programmes @BritishCouncil . Formerly Country Director Slovakia 🌈 Previously worked in 🇫🇷, East 🇩🇪, 🇩🇪, 🇨🇿, 🇱🇰 🇸🇰 1967

Aberdeen, Scotland
Joined October 2010
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Memories of Slovak cuisine (love the 0,33l)
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Bratislava skyline update 🇮🇱
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2 months
Troops from the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries invaded Czechoslovakia on this day 56 years ago. This photo was taken 5 minutes away from where I used to live in Bratislava. A sobering thought.
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Going to get married 💍 😊
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2 years
A very special Bratislava skyline update this evening #Bratislava #skyline #castle #QueenElizabeth
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10 months
Goodbye Slovakia 👋
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Happy Birthday CzechoSlovakia #Czechoslovakia105
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A very Happy 104th Anniversary to Czechoslovakia - a country I never lived in but which has had a huge influence (geographically, professionally, linguistically, emotionally) on my life
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And the FINAL Bratislava skyline update #Bratislava #Slovakia See you in #Aberdeen !
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11 months
Typical Central European fare: Goulash and potato dumplings 🥩 🥔
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3 years
The last February #sunset in #Bratislava this year
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10 months
One of the glorious things about Central Europe
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Jozef Polakovic 🇸🇰 🇪🇺
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Since its premiere in 1848, the enthuastic 👏 of audience has been part of the Johann Strauss Sr.'s Radetzky March. Again this year, the masterpiece was performed at the @Vienna_Phil New Year's Concert. 🙏🏻for this unique experience & message of optimism.
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The Blue Church of Saint Elizabeth in #Bratislava #Slovakia #artnouveau #architecture
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Our 21st anniversary of being together #tempusfugit #spectacles
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Merry Christmas from snowy Bratislava ❄️ 🎄
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Kapitulská street in the old town of #Bratislava #Slovakia
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After 8 great years at @BritishCouncil in Slovakia 🇸🇰 I am moving to a global role in our English Programmes work. And I'll be based in beautiful #Aberdeen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇬🇧
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And this is the view 55 years later today in #Bratislava 🇸🇰 #SovietInvasion
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PERSONAL: 55years ago people of 🇨🇿🇸🇰 woke up with their dreams of freedom quashed by tanks sent by Moscow. #CzechoslovakSpring was another mark in track record of the Kremlin to try to destroy every nation & country that wants 2B free from its totalitarian imperialistic dictate.
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Sunset in #Bratislava 🇸🇰
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Today is the 54th anniversary of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. An event not to be forgotten. Thanks to the democratic revolutions in 1989 both Slovakia and the Czech Republic have become two of the most successful and peaceful countries in central Europe.
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The Pride flag 🏳️‍🌈 flying outside the local City Police station in #Bratislava 🇸🇰
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Changing office and location, changing jobs, moving to Scotland and getting married. Big changes.
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In seven days I’m physically leaving Slovakia after eight and a half wonderful years working as Country Director @BritishCouncil and with great colleagues at @UKinSlovakia Here are some photos of my fantastic time here
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Koliba - the foothills of the western Carpathians in #Bratislava #Slovakia #autumn #fall #jesen
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A bright and crisp January day in the Cairngorms in Aberdeenshire, Scotland - Braemar and Balmoral #Scotland
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Happy Birthday to my husband Josef
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I love this photo: Sandwiches on sale in London 1972
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And a final goodbye to our friendly local pub 🍺 in #Bratislava #Slovakia known (only to us) as the Palace of Culture
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Today is our 20th anniversary of being together. Tempus fugit.
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Dracula's Castle tonight in #Bratislava
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A strange 🌈 over the #Bratislava business district this evening - it hasn't rained all day
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My favourite view of Bratislava Castle #Bratislava #Slovakia #castle #architecture
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This evening's #sunset in #Bratislava #Slovakia 🇸🇰 🌅
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The Christmas Tram has arrived in #Bratislava #Slovakia 🚃 🇸🇰 🎄 All aboard!
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The newly renovated Michalská brána (Michael's Gate) in #Bratislava 🇸🇰
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Happy Anniversary to Czechoslovakia. You no longer exist but have played a huge part in my life. #Slovakia #CzechRepublic
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Bratislava old town #Bratislava #Slovakia
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Panská street at sunset in #Bratislava 🇸🇰
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A lovely 10 year Laphroaig in #Aberdeen #Scotland #whisky 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇬🇧 🥃
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Klemensova street in #Bratislava #Slovakia named after Jozef Klemens (1817 - 1893) - a Slovak scientist, painter and doer of many other things #autumn #fall #jesen
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My favourite part of #Bratislava is around the Blue Church (not sure what the district it called) #Slovakia #architecture #church #spring
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Goodbye to Soho, one of my favourite restaurants in #Bratislava #Slovakia 🇸🇰 🍚
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The backstreets of the medieval old town of #Bratislava
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I have had the extraordinary privilege of living and working in 🇫🇷 East 🇩🇪, 🇩🇪, 🇨🇿, 🇱🇰 and 🇸🇰 in the last 34 years. But I am so enjoying life back in 🇬🇧 and all its wonderful corners
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Saint Michael's Gate in #Bratislava 🇸🇰
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Bratislava skyline update #moon #skyscraper
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Bratislava Skyline update in the moonlight 🌖 #Bratislava #Slovakia
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Two years ago today in #Bratislava #Slovakia - A Covid Christmas Market
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The Christmas Market is under construction on the Main Square in #Bratislava #Slovakia 🎄
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Bratislava business district 🏙️ #Slovakia
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I can confirm I have been outside in the Scottish weather 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💨 ⛈️ ☔️ #StormJocelyn
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Bratislava skyline update #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine
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The very pretty Blue Church (Church of Saint Elizabeth) in #Bratislava #Slovakia built 1908-13 after plans of Hungarian architect Ödön Lechner #architecture
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Spooky castle skyline tonight in #Bratislava 🇸🇰 🏰
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View up to #Bratislava castle yesterday evening 🏰 🇸🇰
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Christmas Market update - It's open! 🎄 #Bratislava #Slovakia 🤶
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Bratislava 🎄 Christmas market this evening #Slovakia #Christmas
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Dunottar Castle in Aberdeenshire #Scotland #castle
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Good afternoon from the Christmas 🎄 market in #Bratislava 🇸🇰
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1 year
An interesting sky this afternoon over the old town hall in #Bratislava
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It's snowing ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ at the beach by the North Sea in #Aberdeen #Scotland #snow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇬🇧
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2 years
These are some of the Stolpersteine in #Bratislava , #Slovakia - brass plaques embedded in the ground outside the houses where victims of the Holocaust used to live and tell of their deadly fate at the central European death camps 1940-45. #HolocaustMemorialDay
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I'm 57 🎉 🥳
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Merry Christmas from us 🎄 🎅 currently in two different countries 🇨🇿 🇸🇰 but back together tomorrow 😘
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The Slovak Philharmonic building this afternoon in #Bratislava #Slovakia 🎶 🎭 🇸🇰
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The penultimate Bratislava skyline update from #Slovakia #Bratislava 🇸🇰
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The beautifully restored salt-production complex in #Presov in eastern #Slovakia dating back to the 16th century
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A fine piece of architecture on Štúrova street in #Bratislava #Slovakia #architecture 🇸🇰
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Bratislava skyline update - The Blue Church and The Full Moon #Bratislava #Slovakia #sky #fullmoon
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The inside of a house I used to live in on Panska street in #Bratislava #Slovakia - it was originally built as rental flats by a building society. Beautiful #architecture
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The Blue Church of St. Elizabeth (built 1908-13) in #Bratislava 🇸🇰 #architecture
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10 months
Things I am becoming disproportionately excited about having moved back to the UK 🇬🇧 after 34 years
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On the border between #Slovakia and #Austria at Devin Castle on the River Danube
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An unusual sunset this evening in #Bratislava #Slovakia
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Cheers from the St. Martin's wine festival in #Bratislava 🇸🇰 🍷
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Bratislava skyline update in #Slovakia 🇸🇰 #Bratislava #sunset #architecture
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I'm clearing out some cupboards and I found this! My pass to meet Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip on their state visit to #Slovakia nearly 15 years ago 🇬🇧 🇸🇰
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We seem to have eternal fog this autumn in Bratislava so here are some #autumn photos from last year in the Park “Sad Janka Krala” #fall #jesen
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The fog finally lifted this afternoon in #Bratislava #Slovakia
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The House of the Good Shepherd in #Bratislava 🇸🇰 which thankfully survived some demolition work in the old town in the 1960's/70's #rococo #architecture
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A typical CzechoSlovak 🇨🇿 🇸🇰 lunch #svickova #tatarak
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Views from the bridge over the River Danube today in #Bratislava #Slovakia 🇸🇰 🍂
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A walk through #Bratislava old town this lunchtime
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I have a horribly sore throat and have therefore eaten half a kilo of roasted Slovak #garlic - I think it might be helping.
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Bratislava Christmas Market this afternoon 🎄 #Bratislava #Slovakia 🎅
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Christmas market update 🎄 in #Bratislava #Slovakia 🇸🇰 🤶
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A short walk along the River Danube today in #Bratislava #Slovakia - unseasonably warm weather for February
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Good morning from the very Blue Church in #Bratislava 🇸🇰 #artnouveau #architecture
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Blue skies and some ☁️ over the River Danube today in #Bratislava 🇸🇰
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