Blogs from France, Europe - page 1252

Time for the first update from Fred and Brenda. They set off Monday morning by taxi to the port, and then, well, I'll let Fred tell you how it's going so far (rest assured I will be correcting his grammar before I press the publish button though)... It's Wednesday and the time on board is 10.30 in the morning, same as at home. We left Southampton to the sounds of a school choir singing Christmas carols accompanied by a brass band. Thought they did very well. As we pulled away from the berth there was some four minutes of a firework display. Relaxed that evening and most of the next day as it is a bit choppy going thru the Bay of Biscay. Today is even worse, we hit some kind of storm going across the ... read more

Eli onnea Suomi 90 vee näin ranskalaisenglantilaisittain! Viime kirjailusta on kulunut tovi. Hiljaiseloon ei ole ollut syynä se ettei mitään olisi tällävälin tapahtunut, vaan se että olemme molemmat olleet 150% kiinni kaikenlaisissa kouluprojekteissa ja selvisimme juuri viiden-päivän-seitsemän-kokeen putkesta. Voittajan on helppo hymyillä, tosin katsotaan joulun jälkeen saammeko keräillä hylsyjä. No, nyt on aika lähteä Suomeen joulunviettoon. Vielä ennen joululomaa pieni "parhaat palat" päivitys loppuvuoden tapahtumissa Grenoblessa. 6.12.2007 juhlistimme Suomen 90. itsenäisyyspäivää. Tiina valmisti juhlaillallisen ja seurasimme linnanjuhlia suorana Helsingistä. Mahtavaa tämä nykytekniikka. Olemme seuranneet jännittyneinä syksyn aikana Maajussille morsian ohjelmaa. Tiedämme siis mistä Suomi puhuu. : ) Nettitv:stä onkin tullut vakioviihteemme. Marraskuussa Tiinan vanhemmat p... read more

Briar and I are now well into our second week of our winter season in the alps. We are both having a great time. unfortunately I have been struck down by a case of campylobacter or the like so things are not quite 100% at the moment. Luckily for moi the toilets in these flash french ski resorts are of a much higher cleanliness than those we are familiar with at Mt Cheeseman! The skiing in not by any means hard the mountains do not seems as steep as home and the steep bits seem to be roped off by the authorities. I am sure I will br able to test myself though. We found out today that we will have our first guests over xmas. It is only 4 people so will not be too ... read more

I can’t believe how the days are flying by here…and how quickly the Holidays are sneaking up! So, for all my die-hard readers out there (and I know there are oh-so-many of you), here’s this weeks installment of new adventures from my Pyrenees home. Tuesday night meant the much welcome return of Christine’s parents. Mamie and Papi, as the girls call them, are so sweet and adorable. I feel like I inherited a third set of grandparents with the family. We had boudin blanc for dinner, which is a poultry based sausage, with caramelized apples and endives. For dessert, Christine made an amazing cake that she insisted was “rate”, or a failure. It was ground up almonds and phyllo pastry and vanilla custard, but since it didn’t look like the picture in Elle magazine, it’s apparently ... read more

Engang for længe siden læste jeg på min dejlige ven, Sofie Bugge’s travelblog den afsluttende blog fra hendes ophold i London. Det var en historie der handlede om en lille pige som var rejst til London og efter en tid vendte næsen hjemad. Historien gjorde mig glad fordi den var så glad og stolt over at min ven, på den måde havde taget eventyret til sig og på den måde som historien beskrev klaret de udfordringer som storbyen indeholder. Jeg besluttede dengang for længe siden at min sidste blog på samme vis som Bugges skulle hedde, at slutte mens legen er god, for den overskrift passede nu engang så fint med de ting hun skrev. Hun berettede om hvordan byen var umulig at blive færdig med, hvordan man kunne forlade den, men aldrig nå helt til ... read more