It’s all change again in the Bavarian Sojourn house, as our youngest tiny person started Nursery very recently. A bittersweet moment in any mother’s life, as it’s the first snip in the apron strings really isn’t it? Especially when your child goes in happily without so much as a goodbye!!! Is this a third child […]
Sunday Photo – Buttercups Midsummer Common
Exploring Kettle’s Yard
I am interrupting my ever continuing Milan posts (long term readers know how obsessive I am about posting everything worthwhile about a place) with my recent visit to Cambridge’s Kettle’s Yard. I had an incredibly rare child and husband free morning a few days ago, so whilst in town I popped along to to see […]
Sunday Photo – English Cow Parsley
A week full of lovely guests, a travelling husband, immunisation appointments (with nurses with next to no bedside manner!!), sick children, and drawn out conversations with (incredibly rude and arrogant) solicitors put paid to me actually having time to post this past week. It sounds like it’s just been one of those weeks all round […]
Sunday Photo – Kettle’s Yard Flowers
I had a rare day to myself this past week, where I spent a lovely morning finally catching up with my friend Pia from Peppercorn’s in my Pocket, before a leisurely lunch, and getting to explore the re-opened Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge (post coming soon). The house is full of beautiful art and nature. I […]
Pizzeria Da Zero and Italy’s Biggest Science Museum
Be warned. If you are one of those people that needs everything to be punctual and organised to be happy, Italy might not be the destination for you. We booked a table at Pizzeria Da Zero (tempted by its sky high ratings and reputation for the best pizza in Milan) for lunch one week day. […]
City of 100 Towers – Pavia
If you fancy a spot of Architecture Appreciation of an early Milan morning, might I suggest you head straight to Centrale Station where you should grab a punchy espresso to kick start your day (we loved the traditional cafe with its long bar and chandelier! Pay for your coffee at the till, give the barista […]
Sunday Photo – A Slice of Life
Slightly cheating with this week’s Sunday Photo, but come on English people, there hasn’t been much to photograph in a week full of rain and greyness. I took this photograph in our little Navigli apartment at the end of a long day’s exploring, and it has to be one of my favourites of our trip […]
Sleepless in Milan
Parents be warned. If your friendly Milanese landlady shoves chocolates into the hands of your bambinos when you first arrive at your apartment for the week, do immediately check the contents, especially of those that your rather “obsessive about chocolate” toddler stuffs into his mouth before you can actually count how many he has digested. […]
Sunday Photo – Sunday Morning Bluebell Inspecting
A spot of early Sunday morning bluebell inspecting at our favourite secret woods. How can it already be that time of year already? Having said that I think the weather we have had up until this past week has held them back slightly so they are only just really out…