On our recent trip to Copenhagen, a lot of our time was spent wandering around the city's green spaces. Copenhagen is blessed with a number of gardens and parks and these are places we tend to visit more and more when we go on holiday. The Danish word for garden is 'Have' , which naturally…
Close to where I live, there is an area of wasteland that marks the entrance to a housing estate. For most of the year, it's just two fields of grass, with a few trees here and there. Cars drive by continually on the adjacent busy road and no one pays any attention to the fields…
Hello ! How is everyone? I've been a little absent round here of late, but for good reason. I've been on holiday in Copenhagen. Fancy taking a little tour around this wonderful city? Ok, then come with me... As a first time visitor, I wasn't sure what to expect. But, as a lover of Nordic…
Normally, in July, at the height of summer, we can expect some decent downpours here. Just as the schools finish and the holiday season gets underway, the rain usually pops by to say hello just when we want it the least. Not so this July. The heatwave, which started some time way back when I…
With this little place called home in the midst of an incredible heatwave, it was off to the coast yesterday for a walk along the beach. Our destination was Castlerock, a wide and sandy stretch of beach on the Causeway Coastal route which extends from Belfast along the east coast to the Giant's Causeway on…
1.It's not even 10am here this Sunday morning, and already the sun is high in the sky. Boris is happily lounging in his sunny spot and it promises to be the most beautiful day. In fact, the week ahead looks full of gloriously sunny days. 2. A photograph of mine from an old blog post…
Café Parisien was, as its name suggests, a Parisian style café on the Titanic. Designed as a replica to the cafés which you find through the streets and boulevards of Paris, it was popular among the younger passengers. Adjacent to the restaurant, it was a place where people could meet for drinks and it was…
