There’s a tradition at this time of year that can be spotted all over Bavaria and beyond from Good Friday onwards, and usually lasts until a couple of weeks after Easter. Osterbrunnen (Easter Fountains or Wells) were thought to celebrate water – obviously essential for life, at a time when renewed life is also […]
Travel
Museo di Palazzo Ducale – Mantova
The Small Girl. Five Years ago (I know) at the National Gallery in Copenhagen. The Small Girl has always been a bit of an art fiend, and has spent countless happy hours sprawled on a gallery floor with pencils and a sketch pad working on many a fine reproduction(!). There is however, a […]
Twelve Tips for Visiting Rome with Kids
I can’t believe our first visit to Rome was a year ago already. I am studying the calendar as we speak to work out when we can next visit but in the meantime I thought some people might appreciate this rehashed version of a post I wrote for BritMums straight after our visit last […]
All things Fondue
You can’t go to Switzerland and not have a fondue can you? That’s like going to Paris and not having a croissant or a baguette, or even visiting Germany and not having a single sausage (speaking of Sausages, do pop over to my friend’s new site – A Sausage Has Two, a beautiful place full […]
Andermatt – Switzerland
The view from the kitchen sink… My initial relationship with skiing might have been much more positive if I hadn’t first been subjected to the concrete monstrosities of certain European resorts. The same resorts that managed to destroy the image I had of a picture perfect place with traditional alpine buildings, set in picturesque […]