All Entries in the "Outdoors" Category
Italy: Cinque Terre
This is a continuation of our trip to France and Italy in April. If you missed my previous posts, you can click here for: Nice, Antibes, Cannes, and Monaco. Next week, I’ll finish up this series with two more posts: Pisa/Lucca and Florence. Cinque Terre is a collection of five villages situated along the Italian [...]
Sunday afternoon picnic, Windsor Great Park
The water levels were a little low, and the grass was looking a bit brown. There was a horse thing going on. The Savill Garden building, looking really different in the full sun. White Bordeaux, salami and prosciutto, brie, sharp English Cheddar, lemon and cilantro hummus, olives with feta, cheese bread, salt and pepper crisps, M&Ms, chocolate [...]
Côte d’Azur: Antibes
I am not sure if it was the amazing weather or the stunning scenery, but we loved Antibes best of all the cities we visited on the French leg of our trip to the Riviera. To us, Antibes was the most “real” feeling–cozy cove beaches, a beautiful coastal walk, and a pretty but not pretentious [...]
Netherlands: Keukenhof (Bulb Garden)
Finally! Finally, I got to see some much anticipated spring blooms in the Keukenhof garden here in the Netherlands. We had planned to visit this garden with Mr. DJ’s parents and some friends from London, but only my father-in-law was lucky enough to make it here before the airports were shut down because of the [...]
Wordless Wednesday ~ 38: By lift or by foot, the view is great (Colline du Chateau in Nice, France)
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Padlocks of Love in Koln, Germany
Remember this bridge? It’s the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge that crosses the Rhine river in Cologne, Germany. Here’s a really cool aerial shot of it. Remember that YouTube video I linked to a couple of days ago showing this bridge destroyed during WWII? Back then it was a railway and street bridge. Anyway, reconstruction of this bridge [...]
Christmas Market in Aachen, Germany
Dear Aachen, we fell under your medieval spell. Your storybook-perfect Christmas market between Charlemagne’s Cathedral and your 14th century Town Hall made us feel like children again, giddy with the delights of the season. Of course, you were most spectacular after dark. And though some of your Christmas vendors seemed similar to the ones in [...]
Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Market) in Köln (Cologne), Germany
What is more magical than a German Christmas Market? How about one at the foot of Koln’s magnificent cathedral, the Kölner Dom? There are street musicians—this one is playing a saw. And market stalls filled with traditional gifts and delicious food. But as evening falls… … that is when the magic begins. The busy, outside [...]
Köln (Cologne), Germany
We’re back and exhausted! Three full days of walking and shopping will do that to you, I suppose. ;-) I have a bunch of photos to share, but first things first: Our Thanksgiving Dinner! It was a Herr, not a Fräulein, who brought us our beer. And it was in a glass, not a stein. [...]
Delft, Netherlands (revisited)
If you missed my first trip to Delft last year, you can take a peek here. On that trip, Roxi and I focused our attention on one of the local potteries specialising in Delftware. This time, I went to Delft for social reasons–meeting two of my friends from my Dutch class for lunch and a [...]
