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So I am in Paris, typing on a keyboard where if I touch type and don’t look at the keys it pretty much makes sense!  This current trip is strictly a holiday; no students, no school, just holiday.  The main reason for this trip is to go to my friend Carlas wedding, but I decided [...]

Well, I never did find the time to finish this off, so a quick summary will have to suffice.  The rest of the year went smoothly.  I developed an appreciation for Christmas lights in the middle of an English winter, enjoyed the Charles Dickens Christmas festival at Rochester, saw fireworks over Leeds Castle, managed a [...]

My friend Sue and her teenage son (and former student of mine) Daniel came to visit me in October.  They used my house as a base for a few days and when the half-term came we met in Edinburgh for a week’s holiday in Scotland.  I decided not to drive up but rather to take [...]

So I should be finishing the last essay of my current unit for my MEd (TESOL) but instead I am going to write a little more about that holiday three years ago…  It will only be a brief summary, but will give you a bit of an idea!
We travelled to Geneva next, where we stayed [...]

Wow, how out of date is this? It’s time to update and catch you all up on my little trips from the last two and half years, then tell you all about my next little journey: France, Italy and England. I am heading off on the 5th of July but have soooo much [...]

Well, we know how to time our visit - on the same day as the worst flood in Lucerne in 30 years! It seems to have been raining in Switzerland for several days. It was certainly pouring with rain when we arrived in Zurich on Sunday afternnoon. It continued to pour for [...]

Sorry for the lack of updates. It is really hard to find time to sit in an internet cafe when there is so much to see and do! This is our last day in Germany. In the past week we have visited Berlin, Hamburg, Eisenach and I am writing this in Munich. [...]

On Wednesday afternoon we headed for Poznan for two nights. My reason for choosing to stay here (in spite of all the Poles telling us not to go there ‘because there is nothing there’) is because it is the base for the organisation Discovering Roots (http://www.discovering-roots.pl/welcome.htm). I had booked a guide from [...]

Will update as soon as possible!

One can’t really come to this part of the world without visiting Auschwitz Birkenau, the location of one of the most infamous of the Nazi death camps. On Sunday we caught the 9am bus - its a journey of about 60km, an hour and a half. Entry to the museum is free, but [...]