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Michelle Lawson

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A House at the End of the Track: Travels among the English in the Ariege Pyrenees

A House at the End of the Track: Travels among the English in the Ariege Pyrenees

Adapted from an original academic study, an intriguing tapestry of the hopes, dreams and reality of life in France, in English.

2019

Michelle Lawson

Michelle Lawson

Stories

Pinned

Michelle Lawson
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Travel Memoirs

Going Home

A journey of redemption in Ukraine, 2019

Mar 12

Wooden church in a countryside hilly setting. A stone well with a broken wooden roof sits in the foreground.

Mar 12

Michelle Lawson
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Full Frame

52-Week Photography Challenge: August

City surfers, dreamy skies and Swifties

Aug 25

Part of a mannequin (hand and hip) in a beige sequinned dress, with a reflection behind.

Aug 25

Michelle Lawson
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Globetrotters

Liquid Jewels: Europe’s Waterways by Train

An Interrail trip through Swiss blue to Mosel green

Aug 22

Mountain landscape with a blue lake within green pastures, and a horned peak on a mountain ridge behind.

Aug 22

Michelle Lawson
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In Living Color

Heart-Shaped Tongue: How I Learned To Love a Dog After a Lifetime of Avoidance

I’m still a cat person, but…

Aug 19

A close up of a small grey dog’s head with a pink tongue hanging out

Aug 19

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A-Culturated

We Were Foreign VIPs in Communist Poland

53 years later, I returned to reconcile my memories

Aug 16

A road intersection with three bronze statues emerging up from the pavement. One woman holds an open umbrella, another wears a hat and a male wears a beret.

Aug 16

Michelle Lawson
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In Living Color

Me and My Bucket: Sampling the Coastal Streams of North Devon

Volunteering as a Citizen Scientist

Jul 24

A head and shoulders shot of a woman wearing sunglasses standing in front of a river and holding a metal bucket.

Jul 24

Michelle Lawson
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Full Frame

Streets of London: 52 Week Photography Challenge July

Sun, art and a street protest in London’s East End

Jul 22

Streets of London: 52 Week Photography Challenge July

Jul 22

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A-Culturated

Seeing English Culture Through the Eyes of Others

When Ukrainian family brought my culture home to me

Jul 20

The base of a metal sculpture, showing a pair of feet standing on a pile of books.

Jul 20

Michelle Lawson
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Globetrotters

A ten-year search to find the mountain outside my window

An elusive summit in the French Pyrenees

Jul 11

Brown wooden shutters open either side of a window, with long, thin icicles hanging from the roof.

Jul 11

Michelle Lawson
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In Living Color

Why Aren’t There More Swings by the Sea?

Swinging into my imagination on the coast of Dalmatia

Jun 24

A woman sitting on a swing with the sea behind her, and letters spelling ‘Gradac’ on the swing frame.

Jun 24

Michelle Lawson

Michelle Lawson

Book Author

I write travel narratives, fiction and non-fiction and in a parallel life I lecture in Applied Linguistics. I’d rather be on a train in Europe. Original photos.

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