Posted in Travel, tagged bike, cycle, Cycling, London to Brighton, new legs please. on July 13, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Today I cycled 65 miles to Brighton by bike.
<This was the beginning.
This was the end>
In between was a lovely sunny day, an insane tea and cake stop at ‘Fanny’s farm shop’ (see picture on right), some serious pain, and a huge feeling of achievement at the end.
I learnt not to carry half a stone of [...]
Posted in Travel, tagged cactus, ow on May 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Random posting – a cactus I met in Marrakech.
Posted in Travel, tagged brussels, frites, grand place, la roue d'or, mannekin pis, toast on February 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It has taken me a little while to get round to writing this, but here is a little post about our recent trip to Brussels for Him Indoors‘ birthday. We chose Brussels because they have toast and chips shops, which is pretty exciting.
It is a very friendly city – everyone was kind to us [...]
Posted in Real life, Travel, tagged london wetland centre, new year on January 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve realised that we are living in a unique age. I don’t know how failed to notice this before, but there is only one year left, until the year 3000, when you can make glasses out of the ‘0’s in the year for New Year’s Eve parties. How have I missed this for 8 years?!
So [...]
Posted in Travel, tagged caleche, grand taxi, Le Jardin Majorelle, marrakech, morocco, petit taxi on October 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
…is an amazing, crazy city. I spent the first day fearing for my life as we were pushed aside by countless mopeds and donkey carts, only to wander blindly into the arms of enthusiastic shop keepers herding us into the souqs.
Having said that, once I got over the initial culture shock I really loved the [...]
Notes on green living from the country kitchen of a first-floor flat in London, UK.