2005/Cortina/ This was our fourth year in Cortina and it remains our favourite curling tournament. It’s got all the right things: great friends, curling, scenery, weather, drinks and food. If you don’t normally curl with us you’ll see a lot of pictures here of people you don’t know but there are a few of our […] Read More »
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Taste of London
2005/Food On a sunny summer’s eve we went to Regent’s Park in north London to check out the Taste of London food fair. It wasn’t cheap at £30 a head but that included quite a few food vouchers. You can see what we ate by clicking on the photo. Read More »
Andrew’s Birthday Weekend
2005/Peak District This year’s excursion for Andrew’s 31st birthday was to the Peak District, about 2 hours drive north of London. We hired a car and headed there on Saturday. We spent our first half of the day exploring typical English tourist towns. Someone said to us that Matlock, one of the main towns, was […] Read More »
Coming Home
2005/canadaAt the end of April we found time for a quick trip home to Canada — just a week but it gave us time to visit with family and friends, something we hadn’t done since we got married in October 2003. We flew into Halifax via Newfoundland with Air Canada and rented a car from […] Read More »
Irashaimase (歓迎) Japan
2005/Japan/ Japan was really the trip of a lifetime for us. From Canada, it would be almost too far to imagine travelling for a short holiday and also very expensive! Thankfully on the British pound it didn’t hurt so much and we were so glad we went — noodle bars, temples, shrines, super-fast trains and […] Read More »