Category: Europe
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On to Ghent
To counteract the rev-head weekend spent in Spa, we wind up our mother-son trip with a couple of days in Ghent. Ghent is delightful enough to get on my must-come-back list.
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Fast cars in action – aka, mother-son adventures in Spa-Francorchamps
After four weeks of mother-son travel, all manner of car related things, we reach to pinnacle event – the F1 in Spa. The main game – and it’s a brilliant experience I’ll treasure forever.
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A little taste of Southern Germany
Germany was supposed to be all about cars. But we packed in a lot of sightseeing as we meandered across the southern part of this country with a rich tapestry of history to explore.
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Life lessons from Spain – Embracing change and new found independence
It’s been a month – a whole month – since I returned from swanning around Spain. Almost a distant memory, but I’m currently sorting out my hundreds of photos and thinking about how nice life would be if we could just sit around drinking sangria in the sun, eating tapas, all day.
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Winter Wonderland, Kiruna, Sweden.
In the far north of Sweden lies a little town called Kiruna. A small town it might be, but it is home to the biggest iron mine in the world, and, more importantly for us, the staging point for three days’ worth of arctic adventures. As the plane descends, the heavy cloud cover gives way…
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Snowy lessons in Christmas.
Christmas Day dawns quite unceremoniously in Cervinia, nestled in the outstretched arms of the Italian Alps. While this quaint ski-town is bedecked with sparking white lights, and the odd decorative reindeer, the shops will be open today and people shall go about their business with, apparently, scant regard to the occasion. This was the first…
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London in the Sunshine
In the fifteen years I have been boomeranging back to London to see family and friends, never has that fleeting glimpse of summer the Brits get coincided so marvellously with my trip… until now. And London in the sunshine is just glorious. The kids and I had a ball with family. For the first time,…
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Magical Cotswolds
It is easy to forget, driving through the built up megalith of London, that England is in fact a patchwork of ancient villages, surrounded by fields of green, in shifting hues and shades. In fact, barely two hours out of London, in The Cotswolds, it is as though you have been thrust into the scenery…
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Magnificent Kew Gardens
If there is one thing Brits excel at, it is green spaces, and the gardens at Kew are no exception. We spent a gorgeous day walking through this magnificent green space admiring the bursts of colour and the lush green surroundings, putting our heads into steamy glass houses and trying not to look down from…
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London Revitalised
I am not sure why it is, but for the first time in a long time, I found myself really appreciating and enjoying London on this recent trip to my old home. I think I moved from “I used to live here, been there, seen that, done it all”, to seeing it again with fresh…
