Hmm, a difficult one this. I’m not keen on being on the business end of the camera these days. But then, I never was. I’ve been scrolling through old photos recently and came across a few of me taken on honeymoon in Italy in July 2000. I look so young, so happy, so newly wed. And yes, so slim. If I posted a photo of...
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We take our children on lots of amazing holidays. Their passports include stamps from Sri Lanka and the Maldives, Jordan , Namibia and South Africa. We think they are very lucky children, as do our friends. But what do the kids think; do they appreciate these opportunities for exotic travel? The short answer is no, not really. We...
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We saw many amazing things during our week in Arctic Norway. Snowy mountain passes, frozen fjords, a family of mink swimming to the shore and sea eagles flying high overhead. But the thing at the top of our list was the Aurora Borealis. We had been worried that the sky might not be clear enough during our visit but we were lucky...
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If you’ve been following my posts about our week in Norway last week, you’ll know that we stayed in a wooden fisherman’s cabin beside a fjord, about 30kms from Tromso. It was cosy, yet spacious but kind of in the middle of nowhere, so you could be forgiven for wondering what there was to do. Surely we must have...
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Our main objective in going to Norway was to see the Northern Lights, so it was no surprise when Google directed us to Tromso. But we were travelling with four children and so didn’t want to stay in town and simply join a bus load of tourists being driven around the countryside all night. The kids would hate it and it was...
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