Mrs.B

A couple of weekends ago we went to Edinburgh to visit some friends. On our second day we spend the morning at a place called Our Dynamic Earth, it’s an interactive museum exploring our planet and its geology, geography, climate, evolution, etc. …

We took a train up to Edinburgh on Saturday morning to visit some friends. I made the mistake of not packing my sunglasses – the weather was actually very nice and we all enjoyed this little cross-country adventure. In addition to just wondering around the town, we also went to a couple of cool museums, photos of those are coming in the next few days …

I only had a few hours on 3 days to walk around Amsterdam, so my impressions of the city are probably fairly trivial. Here they are nevertheless…

I’ve just crashed in my hotel room after walking around sunny Amsterdam for 4 hours with a friend I hadn’t seen for 15 years. It was so nice I have no words right now. Maybe tomorrow :)

We’ve been back in London for 2 days and I already miss the smell of the pine forest…

We spent the last 4 days in the woods. Catching up with friends, walking, climbing, waterbiking, mini golfing, abseiling, tree climbing, swimming, sliding, sitting in the sauna… It was totally refreshing and exhausting at the same time :)

On Thursday morning we packed our bags and headed down to Brighton for a long weekend. Despite it being February, we had a lovely seaside mini-holiday: the kids loved sleeping in the same bed with us (we pushed a double and a single together to fit us all in, my mom had the other single); they loved going to bed late (as we were all in one room, we all went to bed at 9 or 9:30); they loved tossing rocks into the waves; they loved going to the swimming pool every day… [...]

We are back in London now after 6 days in Tallinn. It was a shame that we didn’t see any snow, but it meant that we were able to get around town with the pram and do a bit of sightseeing and shopping.

Will reflect on Christmas later on, but here are a few snapshots from our walks.

We didn’t buy each other presents for our wedding anniversary, we spent a day in a spa hotel instead. Last year we had done the same and loved it so much that we decided to make this an annual treat from now on – a totally perfect way to celebrate clocking up another year of being married :)

We went to the Four Season’s spa hotel in Hampshire. It’s less than an hour’s drive from home, but it’s surrounded by nothing but fields so it feels like a million miles away from London. [...]

Haapsalu has had a castle since the 13th century.

In my childhood it was a bit of a scary place – the green space in the centre was used for sporting activities and the little hills used for sledging in the winter, but all around on both sides of the remaining castle walls was rubble, thick bushes, broken bottles and probably a drunk sleeping off the last bottle of cheap alcohol-based perfume consumed.

The beautiful large cathedral had been used as a warehouse by the Soviets but by the 1970′s had been abandoned and no one dared to try to break in.

Since the 1980′s things have started to turn around… [...]

There are more photos of Haapsalu coming, but while I sort the hundreds of them, here’s a snapshot of our day in Tallinn – no kids, plenty of sunshine, some shopping :)

Friday to Sunday it rained. Non stop. Just as my ark was almost ready, it stopped and the blazing hot sun came out again. James will hopefully get rid of his pasty London office-slave complection by the time we head back over there next Sunday. Today we checked out the castle in Haapsalu. Lots of [...]

One of the perks of living with your mother is being able to leave town with just your husband once in a while. This Saturday morning we packed our bags, took the train from London Paddington to Maidenhead and then a cab to Danesfield House Hotel & Spa. [...]

It was our last evening in Portsmouth.  We decided at 4pm to take a taxi to the aquarium to look around for an hour or so before dinner to end our action packed mini-holiday.  I called a taxi and we headed to the lift at 4:10.  Shortly before the ground floor we came to an [...]