Monthly Archive: July 2026

In 1968, my mother bought a Volkswagen Beetle. It became her third — a car that carried her through decades of a job that no longer exists, and years abandoned in a field before it was found again. This is the story of the Bug, and everywhere it’s taken us since.

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Ten years of rocks, and we had still never set foot in an English garden. Then a volcano tried to stop us from finally going. This is the story of what happened next.

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