Travel

That’s right, I’m out of here like yesterday’s news!  Off like a whore’s drawers!  Like a prom dress at midnight! For the next 10 days I will be here… No trams, metros, scooters, rushing, doorbells ringing, car horns honking, children screaming, people smelling or sirens wailing.  Just peace, tranquility, chilling, chatting, swimming, dog photographing and perhaps tree chopping. We are …

Hrmm I think I may have… perhaps once or twice. Yeah, I definitely have!  LOADS! Yesterday was the first day of Autumn here in the Netherlands and what a great summer we’ve had!  Normally, I spend my autumn posts talking about what I love about the autumn but I’m pretty sure I’ve done that to death and you get the …

This past weekend I went on a sailing trip to Friesland with my photography club.   It was organized by one of our members who is from there and used to work at a sailing club teaching lessons when he was younger.   It was SO much fun! On Friday night we arrived in the village of Heeg, where we would be …

This weekend I went on my first outing with my new photo club.  I was a bit nervous as I didn’t know anyone other than my friend Heather, but I liked the fact that it was a smaller gathering.  I’m more comfortable in those kinds of situations and thought it would give me a good chance to meet some of …

This is my favorite photo from my trip to  Cologne, and it’s of a complete stranger. I was trying to take a photo through the crowd of a really beautiful stall with Chinese lanterns.  It was towards the end of the day and I was getting tired and a little frustrated with the crowd.  This guy saw me taking the …

Saturday myself and Penny were off to the Christmas market in Cologne, Germany.   We’d been looking forward to going for weeks on end so we were both totally stoked.   I think we weren’t really prepared for what was waiting for us though. We knew it was going to be busy, since it is getting closer to Christmas and we went …

For the last number of years I’ve been dying to visit the Christmas markets in Germany.   Since my husband was never too keen, it never really happened.   This year I was talking to my friend Penny about it and we decided to book a trip for the two of us to go.  On December 13th we are going to Cologne! …

Before we left for the South of France a colleague loaned me a book titled 501 Must-Visit Destinations. One of the things that jumped out at me was Chateau de Castelbouc in the Gorge du Tarn. This is what lead us to stay there for the last few days of our holiday. It didn’t disappoint!! The tiny village is built …

Things have been a little ‘bleh’ here lately, I’m sick with yet ANOTHER cold (yeah, my third since October, wtf?!) and am stressed out and frazzled about a multitude of things. Thankfully I have like, the best husband in the world, so I know it’ll all be ok. So instead of getting into all of that, I’m going to post …

We passed this village every day on our way to and from our hotel.  I have no idea what it was called but I thought it was so beautiful nestled up there on the hillside.   There are so many villages like this in the Gorge du Tarn and it would take a lot longer than the time we had. I …

This is a candy shop in the town of Pezenas in France, which is the village we stayed in while visiting my mother in law a few weeks ago. The shop was huge and full of tons of different kinds of candy. I didn’t go in any longer than what it took for me to snap a few photos though, …