August 26, 2007 – 10:11 pm
We went for a family outing today, to the beautiful hills of south Wiltshire. The weather was fantastic, the landscape lovely to look at, the picnic just enough to fill our tummies. Barney walked nearly all the way - about four and a half miles, which is a lot when you’ve got little legs. I [...]
We travelled a lot in our 20s, when we had no children to think about, and earned enough money to afford it. We went to Turkey, Russia, Oman, Italy, Jordan , and enjoyed briefer visits to Canada, the USA and India. But despite its proximity, we never went to Spain.
OK, we did - a cheapo [...]
February 23, 2007 – 11:10 pm
Just got back from four days in Spain, exploring Seville and Granada. Weather mostly wet and mostly miserable, but we still enjoyed a relaxing break away from work and computers and daily necessaries. Neither of us had properly visited Spain before, so it was a cultural adventure as well. Suffice to say, we thought it [...]
February 11, 2007 – 10:40 pm
Because he’d been a really good boy, we took Barney out for a day trip to the caves at Wookey Hole.
Wookey’s great, because it’s a proper cave system that’s still being explored, and offers some very impressive underground chambers to see. It’s not perfect, though - the guided tours feel rushed, and there’s not [...]
December 10, 2006 – 2:40 am
Barney and I went on a cracking walk, and made a little vid when we reached our destination…
Oh, and then we remembered something else we’d meant to say…