Category Western
Winter Weg: The Frozen North
Week 2: Day 7 – Day 14 20th – 26th December 2016 Arriving in Europe On arrival in Denmark, we blearily stepped off the plane into a cold wintry evening. The cold seeps in through the gaps in the airport bubble where the plane meets the ground. Airport staff joke in Danish. The airport is […]
Week 50 – Battered Suitcases on the Sidewalk
4th till 10th August, 2014 Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. – Jack Kerouac Heading to Greenwich On our last morning in Oldham, we cooked a huge English breakfast to thank Suzanne and Kieran for their hospitality. Besides the […]
Week 49 – Friendships Renewed
28th July – 3rd August 2014 Unification On Monday Graham arrived back in Dublin, forty-five minutes early, thanks to a stiff Atlantic tailwind pushing the Aer Lingus flight briskly eastwards. Not bad, but since this flight thus arrives at Dublin at 0450, this means an hour or so waiting at the airport for the first […]
Week 48 East: Cheshire to Denbighshire
July 20th till 27th, 2014 Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. – Miriam Beard Chester The Black-and-white Revival was an architectural movement from the middle of the 19th century which re-used the vernacular elements of the past, using […]
Week 47 East: The Lakes to Liverpool – Part 2/2
July 16th till 19th 2014 The general at the radar screen he should have got the sack But that wouldn’t bring Three thousand million, seven hundred, and sixty-eight people back, Would it? Icarus Allsorts, from The Mersey Sound (1967) So from the quiet green of The Lakes we entered the hip urban city of Liverpool. […]
Week 47 East: The Lakes to Liverpool – Part 1/2
13th till 16th of July, 2014 On week 47 of our tour, I scheduled a surprise for the boys. A few days with no gadgets, no TV, no electricity even. Some surprise, huh? An all back to nature, All camping, all hiking, all campfire – boys own adventure – in a gypsy caravan. Day 1 […]
Week 46 West – I ♥ Aircraft Noise
11th – 13th July 2014 Prunella and the boys have headed off to Oxford and I’m sticking around in Gloucestershire for a couple more days. John and I drop Prunella and the boys off at the Stroud station and we head home via a hardware store to pick up some cement and aggregate. We spend […]
Week 46 East – … Urban Utterances: Part 2/2
11th till 13th of July, 2014 City We were welcomed warmly by Louis, who we had co-surfed with us in Delhi. Read about our meeting here. We walked to the city centre and the boys enjoyed playing on a created beach, whilst we ate a hearty pub dinner at The Swan and Castle. Then a […]
Prema Arts Centre
Volunteering, Participation, Donation, Membership, etc. July, 2014 (Note: If you are considering any volunteer work overseas please stay safe, read our blog disclaimer and consider your personal decisions carefully. Also consider that volunteering with a family in tow, involves far more considerations, compromises and sacrifices, than that of a solo traveller). Kicking Arts in Gloucestershire! Whilst in the […]
Week 46 – Rural Rambling and … :Part 1/2
July 6th till 10th, 2014 Countryside Day of These Days by Laurie Lee Such a morning it is when love leans through geranium windows and calls with a cockerel’s tongue. When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass; and the sun drips honey. When hedgerows grow venerable, berries dry black as blood, and […]
Week 45 – Red Devils and a Cone of Frites
29th June – 5th July 2014 Brussels On a quiet Sunday morning in Paris we pack our bags and Pierre gives us a lift to the station. It is all carefully planned, and by the time we have traversed Paris and emerge into the cool and relative quiet of Gare du Nord, we have a […]
