Today we went to visit a friend of mine, the Canadian-born artist Heather Carroll to watch her at work printing in her studio. She makes some of her printing plates out of stiff card and, in this case, covered the surface with gesso, adding sand for texture and glueing thread in place to provide a [...]
On Friday Carol and hubby took me to Trier, just over the border in Germany, to visit an Easter market. Trier is famous for its Christmas markets so this is a new – and probably lucrative – departure for the town, which attracts hordes of tourists all year round from miles away. Our first stop [...]
We were invited to lunch with our neighbours. All the family are passionately interested in crystals which they use for healing purposes as well as enjoying the sheer pleasure of collecting and owning them. Since our last visit they had acquired some more which they were happy to show us. P was fascinated by the [...]
C took me to visit a friend of hers and to meet some of my European cousins. What she hadn’t told me was how many there were of them! They were as fascinated to learn all about me and my travels and view my blog pages as I was to hear about them – from [...]
We then walked along the outer edge of Chinatown, stopping off to admire all the gold and red ornamentation of a small Chinese temple. A row of typical shop houses i.e. shops on the ground floor with living accommodation above It was very, very hot as we walked, endeavouring to keep to the shade where [...]
Bangkok’s real name, in Thai, is Krung Thep which, roughly translated means City of Angles. “Bangkok” translates as “village of wild plums”. 07.05 After spending a few days cooped up in the hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, following the death of Milly, it was decided that we should go out and go visiting while we were [...]
Thurs 24.04 Sadly this was our last full day, so C took me for a walk up to the gorge on the Glen Lyn estate. A steep path leads up to the top of the gorge through deciduous woodland. Delicate purple-veined white flowered wood sorrel grows in profusion as do harts tongue ferns, bracken, and [...]
Monday 21.4 Another day of awful weather so we decided to limit our expedition to another pub lunch, this time in a former railway station. C went for another dose of beach-combing before supper. Tuesday 22.4 we awoke to glorious weather and decided to make an early start so that we could walk to Heddons [...]
Monday 21.4 Another day of awful weather so we decided to limit our expedition to another pub lunch, this time in a former railway station. C went for another dose of beach-combing before supper. Tuesday 22.4 we awoke to glorious weather and decided to make an early start so that we could walk to Heddons [...]
19.04 The weather was so awful that we only emerged from the cottage to run to the car and drive up to the top of the hill to the nearest pub, where we tucked into a welcome lunch and watched intrepid walkers arrive, take off their wet clothes which they left to dry in front [...]
