Gosh what a gap - again....
It's stressing me out that I completely gave up on this for a while. Mainly just because I was reading random posts the other day and boyyyy was it nostalgic as. And also I can't believe, family or whoever, that you managed to understand half of it. Sometimes I was re-reading paragraphs n sentences trying to figure out what the hell I meant. I guess the one of the downfalls of a diary type blog.
But anyway, dusting it off, once again. I think I might have to re-cap poor old 2015. I did heaps of exciting things that year, and I'm sure when I'm old and dottery it'll be a good time to look at...
Starting with:
Copenhagen
Shitballs what a long time ago, lets find some pictures to refresh my own memory...
Ok, So there is our trip.
The best bits:
Getting bikes and biking literally the whole city, a nice way to see the sites. Nyhavn with its colourful buildings (the sideways photo), the lil mermaid on the harbour, the crazy star shaped place next her, all the cafes.
It randomly snowing.
That feed of sushi we had on he last(?) day.
Paper Island - This is such a sweet place, it's kinda like Brixton Village, only on the harbour and with outdoor fires and chairs and blankies for our chilly fingers. A huge indoor food market, so many delicious things to choose from, and craft beer stalls of course. Communal seating on big picnic tables indoors or beachy chairs outside.
Christiania of course, we came here during the day and ended up (somehow?) finding our way back, drunk, on bikes, and separately much later in the evening. Three rules apply here, No Running, No Photos, Have Fun. This from a sign hanging in one of the streets. It's like a lil community in there, I'd try to explain, but a link is much easier: >HERE< Super fun time there though, if you're up for a party.
The bad bits:
I was putting on my jumper in the Airbnb we were staying in, and flung my arm up and smashed an annoyingly simple but expensive lamp shade. Bugger.
The Fishers Eurotrip
Next up we have Margaret and Michael's tip over. They did a bit of travelling with Sam and I met them when I could. A couple photos then I'll explain:
Cool! So one of the wee trips we did within the UK was hiring a car from Oxford, driving he Cotswolds a bit, visiting Raglan Castle which is awesome, and staying in a cute wee hotel in this little place called Birdlip. We randomly went through the forest of Dean, and in case you wanted to know, that's the forest Harry and Hermione are in when Ron turns up in the second last movie. Huzzah for moi. I got stinging nettle all up me leg just trying to get a picture with the dang sign BUT THAT IS ALLLLRIGHT with me. It actually looks like a hell of a nice place to go camping, so who knows, perhaps I'll get to go back.
Another trip was flying in to Jersey (the Fishers have family there) and then driving (via ferry) from St Malo along to Mont St Michel, which is the awesome looking castle in the dusk photo. It has a flooding causeway ooo but now they built a bridge so no one gets stuck. Very cool, and I would say a MUST SEE attraction in Normandy, if anyone's going.
From there we drove along to the D-Day landing beaches via Longues-sur-Mer battery. This was a crazy place, one with a gun still in place and poppys everywhere and chips in the concrete. Shivvers. We visited a cemetery there, The one with all the while crosses and John Does and overlooking the beaches. It was depressing as hell really. We also stopped at museum, and I'm pretty sure it was called the Overlord Museum. Again, depressing as hell. I got a postcard for my dad here, wrote it, never posted it but instead used it as a bookmark. I keep coming across it and thinking ahhh I'll post that even though it makes no sense now, but then I'll loose it again. Sorry dad.
On to Honfleur! A cute as hell little quaint town Sam had been to before. Very picturesque, very busy. We walked around trying to find somewhere nice for lunch for a while and ended up settling for takeaway kebabs or something. All I remember is, it was fast, and dammmmmn delicious haha.
The following weekend we all went to Rome (jet setters ahoooooy). I was so excited about this trip cos I've wanted to go to Rome since I was a kid, ya know, to see the old stuff. Straight off the plane we went in to see the Colosseum (thank god for pre-booking) and screaaaaam it was just as large and ancient and AWE-some as my brain hyped it up to be. We wandered over to the Forum and man, it's just so great how well it's all survived. Walking round having one of them, 'gosh you can really just imagine what it was like waaaaaaay back when' moments. Yes I sound 90. Yes I am ok with that fact. It was very hot. It was all my favourite.
We stopped in at the Vatican, the Sistine Chapel and I MISSED THE HAND THING haha, I couldn't see it up on the roof, but it was, I had to go back and see it with my own eyes, I'm like that...anyway, the Pantheon, the fountain Sam's grandad was at, Trevi fountain (covered in scaffolding and rammed with other people like me, with the heart eyes, got ice cream, ate delicious food, I took Sam on a Dan Brown book sights tour hahaha, thank youuuu Angels and Demons and thank you Tom Hanks. I think..., Italy might just be my favourite. Sorry Spain, old news.
2015 TO BE CONTINUED....I swear...
But anyway, dusting it off, once again. I think I might have to re-cap poor old 2015. I did heaps of exciting things that year, and I'm sure when I'm old and dottery it'll be a good time to look at...
Starting with:
Copenhagen
Shitballs what a long time ago, lets find some pictures to refresh my own memory...
Ok, So there is our trip.
The best bits:
Getting bikes and biking literally the whole city, a nice way to see the sites. Nyhavn with its colourful buildings (the sideways photo), the lil mermaid on the harbour, the crazy star shaped place next her, all the cafes.
It randomly snowing.
That feed of sushi we had on he last(?) day.
Paper Island - This is such a sweet place, it's kinda like Brixton Village, only on the harbour and with outdoor fires and chairs and blankies for our chilly fingers. A huge indoor food market, so many delicious things to choose from, and craft beer stalls of course. Communal seating on big picnic tables indoors or beachy chairs outside.
Christiania of course, we came here during the day and ended up (somehow?) finding our way back, drunk, on bikes, and separately much later in the evening. Three rules apply here, No Running, No Photos, Have Fun. This from a sign hanging in one of the streets. It's like a lil community in there, I'd try to explain, but a link is much easier: >HERE< Super fun time there though, if you're up for a party.
The bad bits:
I was putting on my jumper in the Airbnb we were staying in, and flung my arm up and smashed an annoyingly simple but expensive lamp shade. Bugger.
The Fishers Eurotrip
Next up we have Margaret and Michael's tip over. They did a bit of travelling with Sam and I met them when I could. A couple photos then I'll explain:
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| At some trippy stone/grass circle in the Cotswolds |
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| the roman forum interlude - thanks Sam for taking the pictures |
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| Sam and his Mum at the same fountain as Margaret's Dad 60 years prior... |
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| MY DREAMS COME TRUEEEEE I've wanted to come here foreeeeeverrrrrr |
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| bit of harry potter location excitement |
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| raglan castle |
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| pretty cooool! |
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| Mont St Michel |
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| Cemetery in Normandy, depressing times |
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| Honfleur |
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| O C U L U S |
Another trip was flying in to Jersey (the Fishers have family there) and then driving (via ferry) from St Malo along to Mont St Michel, which is the awesome looking castle in the dusk photo. It has a flooding causeway ooo but now they built a bridge so no one gets stuck. Very cool, and I would say a MUST SEE attraction in Normandy, if anyone's going.
From there we drove along to the D-Day landing beaches via Longues-sur-Mer battery. This was a crazy place, one with a gun still in place and poppys everywhere and chips in the concrete. Shivvers. We visited a cemetery there, The one with all the while crosses and John Does and overlooking the beaches. It was depressing as hell really. We also stopped at museum, and I'm pretty sure it was called the Overlord Museum. Again, depressing as hell. I got a postcard for my dad here, wrote it, never posted it but instead used it as a bookmark. I keep coming across it and thinking ahhh I'll post that even though it makes no sense now, but then I'll loose it again. Sorry dad.
On to Honfleur! A cute as hell little quaint town Sam had been to before. Very picturesque, very busy. We walked around trying to find somewhere nice for lunch for a while and ended up settling for takeaway kebabs or something. All I remember is, it was fast, and dammmmmn delicious haha.
The following weekend we all went to Rome (jet setters ahoooooy). I was so excited about this trip cos I've wanted to go to Rome since I was a kid, ya know, to see the old stuff. Straight off the plane we went in to see the Colosseum (thank god for pre-booking) and screaaaaam it was just as large and ancient and AWE-some as my brain hyped it up to be. We wandered over to the Forum and man, it's just so great how well it's all survived. Walking round having one of them, 'gosh you can really just imagine what it was like waaaaaaay back when' moments. Yes I sound 90. Yes I am ok with that fact. It was very hot. It was all my favourite.
We stopped in at the Vatican, the Sistine Chapel and I MISSED THE HAND THING haha, I couldn't see it up on the roof, but it was, I had to go back and see it with my own eyes, I'm like that...anyway, the Pantheon, the fountain Sam's grandad was at, Trevi fountain (covered in scaffolding and rammed with other people like me, with the heart eyes, got ice cream, ate delicious food, I took Sam on a Dan Brown book sights tour hahaha, thank youuuu Angels and Demons and thank you Tom Hanks. I think..., Italy might just be my favourite. Sorry Spain, old news.
2015 TO BE CONTINUED....I swear...
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