The Goodyear Blimp will tour the skies in 20 European countries during 2011 to highlight the Goodyear brand at various consumer based activities and events. [Read on...]
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Not an anniversary, not a birthday, just a badly needed opportunity to recharge batteries and stand back from everything for a while. My husband and I jumped on the Eurostar to Paris whilst my mother “borrowed” Ted for three days at home. [Read on...] We drove to Cucuron and discovered the sleepiest of Provencal villages. Streets were deserted. Saucepans belonging to vielle madames clattered as we passed kitchen windows. [Read on...] Herceg Novi is an easy 30 minute drive from Dubrovnik airport just over the Croatian border. You can fly there with Easy Jet in summer and British Airways throughout the year. [Read on...] The Portsmouth to St Malo crossing is around ten hours and arrives in port at 8am French time so you get more sleep and do less driving. It’s a win win situation. [Read on...] “Postcard from” is my occasional series of weekend non-recipe posts. Sian of Mummy Tips opens the conference I am a bit slow off the mark getting this post up about the Cybermummy day itself. I was going to include this material in my flapjack post but it was already very long hence it being posted [Read on...] “Postcard from” is my regular series of weekend non-recipe mini posts. Spring has sprung in London this week, I had the unfamiliar experience of saying, “Look Ted! The sky is blue.” My thoughts are turning to the summer holidays and how I am going to entertain the little person for six or seven weeks whilst [Read on...] “Postcard from” is my regular series of non recipe Saturday mini blog posts. “Really?” people tend to say when I tell them my mother lives on a narrow boat, “What? All the time? Isn’t it cold?” Yes, I reply. All the time for over ten years. And no it isn’t cold because she has central [Read on...] Today’s post is one of my regular series of Saturday non-recipe mini posts, “Postcard from…” Last week I shared pictures of the parade in Vannes, Brittany. Today I am in the mood for something a little “zen” so here are a couple of shots from the hotel garden where we stayed on the same holiday. [Read on...] Today’s post is one of my regular series of non-recipe mini posts, “Postcard from…” Since it will be Shrove Tuesday this week I thought it appropriate to show somewhere that I associate with crepes for this week’s “Postcard from”. I cannot bring you Mardi Gras in Nice but I can bring you a carnival in [Read on...] Today’s post is from my regular series of weekend non-recipe mini blog posts, “Postcard from…” Mont Ventoux is the highest point in Provence and quite possibly the highest place, bar a skiing trip to Meribel, that I have been. Situated 20km north east of Carpentras in the Vaucluse département, it was a little way off [Read on...] The eagle-eyed amongst you may have spotted that I omitted my Saturday Postcard last weekend. Since I was up until 3am working on the Arsenal birthday cake and baby shower cupcakes, I am posting this retrospectively at the same time as the Saturday Postcard for February 6th. The above shot was taken in Orford [Read on...] Postcard from… is my series of Saturday mini-posts. Today’s postcard is from a bird hide in Tottenham Marshes, part of the Lee Valley Park which borders the 2012 London Olympics site. Selfridges food hall, the Designer’s Guild Warehouse Sale, St Tropez; there are many places I’d rather be than sat in a bird hide [Read on...] This weekend’s Saturday Postcard comes from Ghent in Belgium, one of the larger towns in the Flemish part of the country. On a weekend trip on the Eurostar we were visiting one of my former college friends who at the time was living in Waterloo, some 30 minutes south of Brussels. My first trip [Read on...] This blog post marks the first in my new series of Saturday mini-posts which will be called “Postcards from…” I will use it to share anecdotes and pictures coming from holidays, friends and family around and about. Today’s postcard is from my uncle in France. Galette des Rois Villeurbanne, Lyon, Jan 6 Dear Sarah [Read on...] |
 
 
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