Hopping back to my the old Sunday post format this week as I currently have limited Internet access… Taken this morning in a foggy but very beautiful Trier….
Monet’s Muse – Latour Marliac, France
Fading memory jolted by the recent posts on beautiful Giverny by Museum Mum and MumsGoneTo, I realised I hadn’t yet written about our visit last summer to the birthplace of the waterlily as we now know it, and the inspiration behind Monet’s famous Nympheas… Bory Latour Marliac was a world travelling horticulturalist, initially intrigued by […]
Week in Pictures – 2
How typical that when I decide to expand upon the single Sunday Photo post format I have kept for years, my second week of it has been severely limited by the still uber krank toddler… Not content with croup, the germs in his system have blessed us with a double ear infection = one very […]
My Week in Pictures Week 1
THIS was supposed to have been posted yesterday evening to replace my usual Sunday Photo, when I had a quiet chunk of time to relax after a lovely busy weekend catching up with old friends. EXCEPT that the poor toddler began to sound a bit croupy late Saturday night, and by Sunday had started to […]
Life & Travel Plans 2019
Slightly belated, but I do love a list ( from meal plans, to jobs I need to do in varying order of urgency, my house is covered in them!), and I have finally gotten around to committing this one to “virtual” paper thanks to being tagged in a “plans for 2019” post by the lovely […]
Sunday Photo – 365 Miles
Not completely picture perfect thanks to the blue van, but a gorgeous spot nonetheless, and a picture I posted on my IG feed and wanted to include here as well… Taken on Friday in my Grandparent’s beautiful village. My lovely Gramps is slowly succumbing to Alzheimer’s, and whilst it’s heartbreaking, I am determined to spend […]
Cultured Kids #37
A January sunrise (not this year. This is Bavaria. The view out of my Winchester bedroom window is a little more “urban” than that)… Whilst I have been reading a lot of comments on how long January has seemed this year, I still can’t believe it’s almost over. When I was little January seemed so […]
The Jaufen Pass – Four Seasons in One Day
When we finally managed to negotiate our way out of Merano, Mr R suggested that we take the fastest route back to Vipeteno (not because we needed to make a fast get away or anything, we had a lovely day in Merano in the end), but because the fastest route, also happened to be the […]
Sunday Photo – White Carpet
A Meander around Merano
It’s around this time of year that I tend to dream about spas. All that Christmas indulgence combined with the general greyness of the UK currently (in terms of mood and weather) means I wouldn’t give too much thought about jumping on a plane for a week or so, in order to regain a bit […]