travel

Elba holiday Part 2 from hobbyhorse 32 days old

Well it was over a month ago sob. But I did say I would write about our journey back. We were on the North West part of the island with a view of Corsica ...

Oh Vienna 2 from hobbyhorse 98 days old

Well, it's difficult to say everything you want to say about a new place and country. There are so many levels of impressions - the people and the way ...

Oh Vienna! from hobbyhorse 101 days old

[ ... ] my usual travel day migraine! And on Tuesday I burst into tears in the Breughel room. I don't know I didn't expect to be moved by Breughel. I ...

Late summer in Tuscany from hobbyhorse 120 days old

Thinking of Italy

What we're missing! from hobbyhorse 173 days old

Our place in the sun (well for two weeks a year)

Flamenco from hobbyhorse 179 days old

When I was in Seville a couple of weeks ago I went to see a flamenco performance. It felt a bit weird doing something like that on my own, but I thought, ...

Cornwall last year from hobbyhorse 226 days old

It was my first trip to Cornwall. It's as beautiful as people say. This was a magical sunny moment in a dreadful rainy, cold June visit! Cornwall view, ...

Turin part 2 from hobbyhorse 264 days old

While I was in Turin I revisited their best museum. Did you know that Turin has the largest Egyptian Museum in the world outside of Cairo? And they have ...

A hot chocolate in Turin from hobbyhorse 271 days old

Italian hot chocolate is something else anyway. Thick, rich, you eat it with a spoon. A bit like hot blancmange. But this one was really special. It ...

Back from Italy from hobbyhorse 271 days old

I've been to Italy for work. I'm an educational writer of books for teaching English as a second language.We have been on the road with the rest of the ...