About Sophie

Trials & tribulations of my increasingly full-time girl-mode.

sophie @ baskerville.net

Tag: travel

  • Reacting to a pandemic

    More reports from the UK Government Covid-19 Inquiry today, and lamentable reading too, if you can make it through all 800 pages across two reports released today 2025-11-20. You can find all the reports here. My Own Timeline My elderly parents had already gone into isolation in February. Having lived through the 1957-8 H2N2 Influenza…

  • The only thing we have to fear is…fear itself⁽¹⁾

    Sometimes the only way to deal with a particular fear is to face it, head on[2]. Flying in girl-mode Without being reckless, Sophie can be herself in most European countries (EU/EEA/CH), at least in the Capitals & big cities. She has toured the Vatican (which is full of men in dresses anyway who work there),…