This is by way of some catch up from our holiday in Poland – various ideas for blog posts at the time. For the uninitiated, I spent two chunks of time in Poland: six months in my gap year, working on the outskirts of Warsaw in a school for the blind; then ten months teaching …
Category archives: Travel
Rock around the pools
It’s another seaside outing, and this time church family. Last Sunday saw a group of us head down to St Abb’s Head and Coldingham Bay, between North Berwick and Berwick on Tweed. It’s been a mite wet in Scotland recently (she writes, having come home half soaked tonight), so our hopes were not great for …
Beside the forthside
It’s not really beside the seaside, living in Edinburgh. The big rolling ocean is still quite a while away. But it’s really about the smell. Waft some seaweed under my nose, and I’m happy. Instant holiday. So, we managed an outing with my parents yesterday – took their car up to Silverknowes, and walked along …
Of maps and men
Having revisited one former home, found myself visiting the town where I spent my secondary years, only half a week later. (Reasons for this less positive, though perhaps I’ll do a separate post about that.) Otley has its market, and Upton-on-Severn has its maps…and also morris men (though thankfully not all the time). I used …
B’stilla…but no fandango
Have just looked back at the last two posts, and funnily enough, they are both about food. Again. So I might as well have thirds, and write another post about food. Dan has put up a picture of Eric in Paris, but truly, we were there too…We had three and a bit days there before …