Archive for April, 2006

Cycling Europe with a baby

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

reuben in his trailerWe are back in the North of England, still staying with the always-entertaining (five kids!) Shogren family.

There has been a number of complaints about recent blog entries. Specifically that there hasn’t been any recent blog entries. Not since Spain, anyway.
The reason? “Cycling Europe with a baby” (listed on side-bar, please click to reveal all).

“Cycling Europe with a baby” is not just cycling across Europe with a baby. It’s a project, a mission, a production. It is a beast that demands feeding: emails, research, more emails, web-site production, research, writing and design. Not to mention our physically taxing `training rides’ which involve us riding through the green hills of local villages, admiring the first signs of spring and stopping to sample local produce (marmalade spiked with scotch whisky on crumpets with Earl Gray tea).
Ahhh the sacrifices we make …

Understandably, with the demands of a beast to satiate, there is little time to write entries for a little while …but I will keep you all posted as “Cycling Europe with a baby” moves from planning stage to implementation!

25 postcards from Spain

Saturday, April 1st, 2006

I know it’s too much. It’s like an hours-long slideshow that Auntie Wilhelm shows on her return from Egypt. But there was so much beauty about, I just wanted to suck it up through my little digital eye. I’m afraid that when it comes to photos I am very much the consumerist traveller. Gobble Gobble Gobble.

So here they are.

25 postcards from Spain.

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airport gaudi inspired university entrance washing
chris, reuben and a spoon angel We get by with a little help from our friends
The doll's house chris and claire playfight on the balcony spanish house
spanish home with sprouting steps reuben rail-surfs sitting in the spanish sun
the corner building beautifulboy.jpg menu
piano-playing on the steps
words for the dead 1 blue sky
entrance of the mausoleum grave words 2
grave words 3 mausoleum
on the balcony the university