Yesterday evening we returned home from our recent travels to the city of Leuven in Belgium. We had a room with a view and a cosy fire. The week was nice and (mostly) relaxing and now I am working my way through over 800 photographs. This has been hampered with my computer playing up by [...]
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Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Leuven 2015
A Room with a View
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 22nd 2015
Filed under Holidays, Oxford 2014
Bridge of Sighs
This graceful construction isn’t as old as it looks. It was designed by Sir Thomas Jackson in 1913 to link the Old and New Quads of Hertford College, which are separated by New College Lane. No one calls it by its original name, Hertford Bridge, because of the perceived resemblance to its more famous namesake [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Mar 16th 2015
There is no foreign land; it is only the traveler that is foreign.
Robert Louis Stevenson
12 Comments CherryPie on Mar 15th 2015
Filed under Gardens, Holidays, Winchester 2014
Hidcote – The Garden Rooms
Hidcote Manor Garden is one of those gardens which can only be found in England! Created by keen horticulturist, Major Lawrence Johnston, on a Cotswold property bought for him by his mother, it is a series of garden rooms with pavilions, clipped hedges, paved paths, topiary and green “doorways” framing one beautiful sight after another.
Divided [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Feb 19th 2015
Filed under Art, Gardens, Holidays, Winchester 2014
Hidcote – Art
20 Comments CherryPie on Feb 18th 2015
Filed under Art, Holidays, Winchester 2014
Lieutenant General Sir Charles Gairdner
GBE KCMG KCVO CB
He commanded the 10th Hussars from 1937 to 1940, and was Colonel of the Regiment from 1949 to 1952. After the Second World War he was head of the United Kingdom Liaison Mission to Japan, and Prime Minister’s personal representative. Between 1951 and 1968 he was Governor of Western Australia and then [...]
13 Comments CherryPie on Feb 17th 2015
