My husband and I have a pretty romantic love story, if I do say so myself. We met in 2007 in Melbourne, Australia while I was on a year-long university exchange and he was living there. I arrived in January, we met in March and by June we were living together. When my year abroad … Continue reading
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France With the Family – Travels With a Toddler
Two years on and we’ve done an awful lot of travelling with our little girl, but surprisingly we had never taken a family holiday just the three of us, that is until last week when we headed back to the south of France, en famille! Continue reading
That Time That Life Got in the Way…
Well hello there! Remember me? I’m the person who used to write this little blog with some semblance of regularity. Not so recently, well for the past year.
Friday Photos – Taking the Manneken Pis in Brussels
Normally my posts are effusive in their praise for the many and varied attractions and locations I have visited on my travels…but not this one! Continue reading
À Bientôt, France
At 5pm on May 25th, 2014 our ferry pulled away from the dock in Cherbourg and our five month adventure in France was over.
24 Hours in Barcelona, Spain – Part 2
And we’re back for the second installment of the series 24 Hours in Barcelona!
24 Hours in Barcelona, Spain – Part 1
“España 140km”, the sign said as we drove down the highway from our temporary home in Pezenas. 140km?! That’s nothing, I thought.
The Day That Carnaval Hit Town
We are currently calling a small town outside of Narbonne home. The village of Moussan has a population of just over 1,000 souls and you are most likely to be woken by the squawking of chickens or the rumble of tractors
Terrorized by la Tramontane
Before I left Ottawa and moved to Liverpool I had never really thought much about wind. It isn’t really a factor in Ottawa, a landlocked city hundreds of miles from both oceans and the Great Lakes. Every so often the city is besieged by a storm that brings with it winds, sometimes small tornadoes as … Continue reading
In the Dog House – House sitting in France
It was with heavy hearts that we packed up the car and closed the front door for the final time in Pézenas. We were only there for 60 days but it had quickly begun to feel like home.