For one of us, Normandy was all about D-day and war monuments, for me, it was the cradle of 19th-century Impressionism (and fossils but that's a whole other story).
Impressionism is...
Sometimes when you've been longing for something, it becomes almost a myth in itself, something much bigger and better than reality. But that hasn't been the case with the desire...
Have you watched "The Fjällbacka murders"?
It's in the area where this series takes place, that we rented a house. No worries, unlike the series, the area is rather quiet and...
Thanks to our friend from Amazing Nature Scandinavia, Mogwai and I got the unexpected opportunity to try out the Kolarbyn eco-lodge.
Kolarbyn means something like ‘the coal village’ and it’s also...
Summer is (almost) here and since that means that liquid will remain liquid, I've started the rock tumbler again!
Rocks tumbling around in a barrel obviously make some noise. It's probably...
My main goal in traveling to England's Jurassic coast was to search for fossils like ammonites, Belemnites, and Ichthyosaurus vertebrae. And yes, I chose the word 'search' rather than find...
Did I get ginger biscuits just because I used to read about them in the Famous Five books? Yep! Very much.
I even texted a good friend who lives in England...