Including turning 50 itself, visiting a festival of lights in Berlin (going round seeing animations and lights projected onto buildings), staying in an airport hotel, sitting and watching two hours of films in a gallery (more than spent on the gallery itself), using the audio guide at the classical museum in Berlin ( Read more... )

It may sound very similar to the last one but it's significant for me. I've managed 49 and never stayed in a backpackers' hostel. Before coming home we returned to Krakow and stayed in the Dizzy Daisy hostel. I am a bed and breakfast, self-catering , even a hotel person but my conservative side has meant, til know, I've never done the hostel thing ( Read more... )

Have thought about it and now actually done it - steep steep steep, loads of people, small chain sections, steep drops and nearly1900 m. After going for trips with each of daughters finally managed with the eldest to South Poland and climbed Mt Giewont http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giewont. A proper mountain and a sense of achievement for both of us

Instead of rushing around and merging everything into one I've been dividing things up. Busy at work, leave it there and not worry into the night. Enjoy what doing next, and with a few wobbles keeping it up!

LAst of last Polish trip ones! For a few years I have wanted to visit one of these very Polish places and on this holiday I managed it! http://www.skansen.kudowa.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=78&Itemid=47 Fairly quiet so we had chance to wander round older buildings and look at memorabilia. A sense of history, culture and the old ( Read more... )

What with Olympics (TV watching), busy at work, Talktalk internet misbehaving(haev to sit within 3 feet of router to get signal) etc very little reading and posting, for which apologies!!

Getting behind on new things as well...and time running out!

Not our own I hasten to add. In Peckham, on the 10th floor of the multi-story car park, is Franks' http://www.frankscafe.org.uk/.

Someone had birthday drinks - they didn't even bother to search Beloved's bags, it was so evident we were carrying neither drugs nor concealed weapons.

It's dead trendy has table tennis tables and art installations - and ( Read more... )

Despite grey skies, which are pretty common at the moment, we explored a new place - Erith! It is did rain but my Beloved was able to try out her new charity shop waterproof trousers.

We found some really beautiful spots. These walks just keep on surprising us, We've lived nearly 24 years in South East London and we keep on getting surprises.

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We're off this week but nothing - well nearly nothing planned. We've got a holiday planned at the end of August in Poland - well a flight there but nothing back yet - maybe we're not coming home!!! But this week is blank ( Read more... )

A number in one! The Wide Open School again and alternative art! An afternoon of what we can learn from mountains at the Hayward Gallery ( Read more... )