Welcome to ‘You’re in a Foreign Country Now’. You could be excused for thinking that this site is a travel diary, especially as the first posts will be about travels in Europe over Christmas and New Year 2013 – 2014. But in time, I plan to write about more metaphorical ‘foreign countries’; history,  life writing, archives – places where, as L. P. Hartley said ‘they do things differently’.

The title and photo are a tribute to my Dad, John Salmond, from whom I learned the value of history and story telling, and with whom my husband, children, brothers, sister and I had numerous hilarious adventures in foreign countries.