After returning from Ireland it was time for a spot of shopping. No, just kidding, it was time to visit some museums. Mike went to the Science Museum, while I went to the Victoria and Albert museum around the corner; a big corner. These museums are pretty big! I appreciated this rather large tapestry of a…
Month: October 2016
An inspiring Irish weekend
We flew over to Ireland to spend a few days with good friends. The flight over (and back!) were the noisiest flights I have ever been on! So much so that when we arrived I asked our friends if the Irish are known for talking… and that was greeted with laughter. 😉 People talked to…
1500 stairs in one day
We hopped onto a double-decker bus and headed in the direction of St Paul’s Cathedral. We saw a few interesting things on the way. Firstly, this Twinings tea shop which must be the smallest ever! And then a rather small road. And this cute shop! Then we arrived at St Paul’s Cathedral which was larger…
Visiting Honor Oak and a Mousetrap
On our first full day in London we had the morning set aside for meeting someone very important to us. She lives in a suburb of London, Honor Oak, so we joined the masses going on the London Underground in Victoria Station. Eventually we got to Honor Oak. The old Honor Oak buildings (that we were…
Cool Britannia!
Well, I thought I had an original title for this post, a play on “Rule Britannia”, but on our second day in London, from the top of a double-decker bus, what did I see? A shop called “Cool Britannia”. Oh well, so much for being original! 🙂 We left Calais early and waited a while…
In Calais, France
Our friends in France, Didier and Jacqui, live in a beautiful spot in the French countryside! We felt very welcome: Everything was much more perfect looking than this in the bedroom when we first arrived, this is the lived-in and slept-in version. 😉 The view from our window of the garden was gorgeous! In fact their whole…
Goodbye Holland and goodbye friends!
We enjoyed the beautiful early morning light as we drove to Arnhem from Emmeloord. It turned into a beautiful, blue sky day! We have seen so many of these tree-lined lanes in Holland: Very pretty. I’m fairly sure this farm had thatched roofs: Then we arrived in Arnhem. We returned the car, and who should be waiting…
Last full day in Holland
Saturday in Holland was our day set aside for visiting folk in Twello, who we knew by email, but had not yet met in person (related to one of our websites). In the afternoon we went out for a walk with Hugo and Liz. We saw these huge pumpkins at the side of the path. Including all…
Living on the bottom of the sea…
Living on reclaimed land is not as bad as you might think. 🙂 In fact, it is very pretty! Aunt Janny took us to this amazing orchid house (and shop). We were quite at home there, just like being back in Kalimantan, complete with banana trees! If Aunt Joan was here, she’d be saying, “Inilah…
Exploring Amsterdam
For our first day in The Netherlands we had reserved tickets to see Anne Frank’s “house” in Amsterdam. Not really wanting to drive into Amsterdam itself, we made plans with Aunt Janny to drive to a stadium for parking just inside the ring road and then take the tram into the city. We saw lots…