How to teach your toddler to ski…. Not many people might be thrilled at the above prospect, given that one of the main attractions of going on a skiing holiday is to place your treasured offspring into the capable hands of an instructor, where they will learn the ropes, and you will get to ski/enjoy […]
Sunday Photo – Finished For the Day – Zugspitze
After a hard day’s skiing on the glacier, it was time to take a bit of a break before catching the cable car back down…
A Taste of Trier
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 […]
Sunday Photo – Foggy Trier
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 […]