It was a lovely evening in November. The sky looked beautiful in purple by the time I walked out of the restaurant and onto the City Hall in Salisbury, for the Born Free gig Brian and Kerry were doing. It would be their second last night. I was only going to see this one, although [...]
Category Archives: Holidays
Dec
29
2012
Stonehenge and Salisbury
Brian May and Kerry Ellis announced a few tour dates to raise awareness of the Born Free foundation and I quickly concluded I could do with a little break like this. So I checked which of their dates happened at a weekend, followed by looking up where exactly Salisbury is. At this point I didn’t [...]
Oct
22
2012
Dreux (Back to France again)
Last year in May (which is two school years ago), I was invited to give a ‘conférence’ by the lovely Laurent, who’s a teacher in France. We kept in touch since and in the meantime, he changed schools. Last month I did a lecture at his current school, Lycée Rotrou, in Dreux – a little [...]
Oct
21
2012
Just another day in London
I had something official to do in London, so a trip was booked just for the day. But then the official plans got cancelled and I had a Whole Free Day in London (what a gift)! So I asked on twitter who’d like to come for dinner and these three lovely men spontaneously replied. Here’s [...]
Oct
05
2012
Can’t get enough of Schier island (5/5)
Weekend: the extra night The farm was for groups, but the island is very suitable for smaller groups of tourists too of course. I had thought I’d want to stay one more night, to relax, but also to work on some of the reports while on the island still. I’d also thought I’d be the [...]