And they say that at Christmas all roads lead home… And they do, around 6 hours after we had left Cologne! We spent Christmas itself in a beautiful cottage in a tiny Hampshire village, with my sister and her partner (who proved to be a good in-house children’s entertainer – thank you Andy!)… The […]
A Frankfurter in Frankfurt?
A Frankfurter in Frankfurt?
The Chocolate Museum (Six Hours in Cologne)…
On the drive back to the UK for Christmas and New Year (the first in three years – more on that later!), we stopped off in Cologne (or Köln as it’s better known over here) to break up the journey. Cases dumped at the family friendly Novatel on the edge of town (The Small […]
In With the New…
And in what seems like less than a blink of an eye, a brand New Year is with us once again… Welcome 2013, it’s lovely to have you here! I quite like this time of year, and all the hope and possibilities that lie ahead. As it stretches out long and empty before us, I […]





