2013/02/18 23:49
When I travelled to Denmark ten days ago with Amaia, Anna and Léon, nobody asked us any questions (Amaia, Anna and I were using our Danish passports and Léon his British one).However, when we returned last Wednesday, Léon and I were interviewed for a couple of minutes by the border police in Stansted (our relationship, his date of birth, and...
2011/09/06 17:31
Min søster og hendes mand, deres datter og hans to sønner besøgte os her i weekenden for første gang nogensinde. D.v.s., de besøgte mig alle for fem år siden, da jeg stadig var single og Ursula ikke var født endnu, og de besøgte os uden Felix og Theodor for 3½ år siden, men det var altså første gang, de alle...
2013/02/25 22:43
During my recent trip to Denmark with Léon, Anna and Amaia, my mum and I took Léon and Anna to
Randers Regnskov (while my dad looked after Amaia, who had got a chest infection).
As always, it was a great experience, so much better than Eden.
If you don’t know the place, the idea is to take a zoo and a greenhouse, and then take the animals out of the zoo and put them and the visitors into the greenhouse together. This means that monkeys, parrots, leaf-cutter ants, pythons and bats might suddenly be sitting on your shoulder (the really dangerous animals, such as rattle snakes and Komodo dragons, are still locked up).
Furthermore, you can help feed the animals at specific times, and Léon loved feeding the bats just as much as Anna enjoyed feeding the manatees.
Apart from the winter months, you can fly directly from Edinburgh to Billund (home to Legoland and the Lion Park), which is about 80 miles south-west of Randers, so it’s really quite easy to get to.
Oh, and in case you’re wondering about the photo — it really is a live python next to Léon!
2013/02/14 18:55
When I visited Denmark a few days ago (together with Léon, Anna and Amaia, but that's another story), I wanted to take a few bottles of my home-brewed beer to inflict on old friends, so I wrapped eight bottles up in my best clothes and handed the suitcase over to Norwegian (they fly Edinburgh-Copenhagen, even during winter).When we finally got to Århus, I unwrapped the bottles, and apart from one (which had leaked a little), they seemed to have survived...
2012/07/18 21:14
We had originally planned to go camping in England this summer, but when my dad broke his foot, we decided to go and visit my parents in their home in the Apennine mountains between Florence and Arezzo instead.Given that the northern half of Europe (including most of France) has had abysmal weather for the past few months, while Italy and...
2011/08/11 23:09
We've just returned from three weeks in Tuscany, where my parents had invited us to spend the summer holiday with them in their house in a tiny village called Pieve Pontenano in the mountains less than 100 km south-east of...
2011/05/25 18:48
Most people have assumed that an independent Scotland won't introduce passport controls at the Scottish-English border.I'm sure that's not the intention, but as a blog posting on Better Nation pointed out today, Scotland will probably have to join Schengen at...
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