Whilst we could have opted for a nice quiet time at home before our building work starts next week, somewhere just before Christmas – when half term seemed far far away, the call of the mountains was too great, and we decided to drive down through Europe to Bayern for a quick ski trip, with […]
Travel
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]