The Fitzwilliam was the first Cambridge Institution we visited as prospective new temporary residents back on that cold Autumn day a little over a year ago. Fresh off the plane from Munich, and anxiously awaiting the call to tell us whether we had been successful in our bid for our current rented home, we headed […]
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Two at Finkley Down Farm
The toddler had his second birthday at the weekend. We celebrated him turning 734 days old (I have just added the extra 4 days!) with family which was a novelty in itself. It’s incredibly hard to believe that that much time has passed already since our slightly turbulent introduction in the noisy wards of Erding […]
Easterly Oysters – Mersea
A little brief and sunny interlude in my Swedish posts (I STILL have two to go, but they are really good recommendations for places you must see if you go to Stockholm, I promise!). I wanted to include a post about our little weekend trip to the most easterly inhabited island of the UK – Mersea. […]
Of Medieval Post Offices and Modern Correspondence Courses
Just popping back to Cornwall today, to take you to the Old Post Office in Tintagel… This traditional Cornish Longhouse started off life some 600 years ago as a Manor house here. You can’t really miss it in thanks to a couple of reasons, its distinctive wavy roof caused by gentle subsidence, and the […]
Inspecting Lyme Hall
A forty-five minute drive from our base near Curbar Edge, lies Lyme Hall. This vast (once sporting) Estate on the very edge of the Peaks was once home to the Legh Family, and is well looked after by the National Trust today. Used as a film/TV setting on many an occasion, it is probably most […]
An Austrian New Year…
New Year can be a funny old time of year as an Expat – with many friends either travelling or busy with visiting guests. More often than not it can be – well, quiet… So after last New Year’s Eve that could only be described as a bit of a damp squib (a little […]
Log Cabin Life – Carinthia
We have stayed in a wide variety of places in this part of the world – from our beautiful but not so cosy Zugspitze Iglu, a fabulously well equipped canvas “house” (in a snow storm) in the heart of the Black Forest earlier this year, my special birthday palace near Garmisch, and a medieval hotel […]
Pastures New – Almabtrieb – Predazzo
Before Frau Holler (or Old Mother Frost) can even begin to think about shaking her feather eiderdown (resulting in the first blankets of snow as the German fairytale goes), something pretty special takes place across most Alpine regions, whether they are in France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria or in this instance Italy… I wrote about the […]
A Stay in Croatia – The Istrian Peninsula
So here it is, the first of my posts from our time in Croatia. Not to go on (and yes Mr R, this is directed at you!), but I could have live blogged this trip had I had a computer!! If I am truly honest though, it was actually really lovely to have some off-screen time […]
Nemo Science Centre – Amsterdam
I am not living up to my “publish a post every two to three days” mantra at the moment, but not without good reason – it’s “that time” of year! We have two weeks left at school and quite simply far too much going on. With the news that we will be here until […]