About an hour's drive east of Prague you'll find a curious church. In the late 1800s, František Rint, a Czech wood-carver, was given the task of furnishing the church with, well, bones. Years ago, I travelled with my oldest daughter, 10 at the [...]
If you're in London - or in the Cotswolds, one of my favourite parts of England, I recommend an outing to the little town of Woodstock and Blenheim Palace. The palace represents the early stages of the English Romantic movement - an architectural style characterised [...]
The #FriFotos* theme this week is coast, which suits me well, as I've been meaning to say a few words about the Jurassic coast anyway. Do you have a kid completely enamoured with dinosaurs and fossils? I do... or at least, I did. On a [...]
Another Sunday, another segment in our family road trip in Wales. Today, it's all about Ynys Môn, better known as Isle of Anglesey. (If you're wondering why Cat looks a tad younger, it's because this is from our first road trip in Wales, when she [...]
Another Sunday and a new installment on family road tripping in Wales. Last week, we left off in Blaenau Ffestiniog. Today, we continue onwards to Llandudno - Conwy. We've been here before, so you know we like it up here on the northern coast of [...]
Happy Sunday and welcome back to our family road trip in Wales. This week, we travel the route Harlech - Portmeirion - Blaenau Ffestiniog. Portmeirion From Harlech, we carried on towards Portmeirion, a seaside village on the Welsh coast, and one of our favourite places. [...]
The girls and I love the mysterious and misty country of Cymru, so much so that Alexandra, my oldest daughter, decided to do her MA here. She graduated from Aberystwyth University last July, and much of the ceremony was in Welsh, totally incomprehensible, totally Hogwarts [...]
