We were both a bit slow to emerge from sleep due to the previous day being so long. When we arrived at the breakfast room we found it was stocked with all the basic needs for a no-frills breakfast. After enjoying breakfast, we decided to step into the hotel’s garden quadrangle and found that we [...]
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Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Leuven 2015
Leuven – Day One
The taxi arrived on time to take us to Stafford station for the first part of our train journey. I felt a bit sorry for the taxi driver because Mr C hadn’t factored in enough time to cater comfortably for slow moving traffic but we made it in time. When we arrived in London the [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jun 24th 2015
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Leuven 2015, Science & Nature
A Room with a Night Time View…
…Two planets and a star
Venus, Jupiter and Regulus shining bright in the sky.
Brilliant Venus in west from dusk until mid-to-late evening. Venus – the brightest planet and third-brightest sky object overall (after the sun and moon) – reaches its greatest elongation in the western sky on June 6. That means it is at its farthest from [...]
15 Comments CherryPie on Jun 23rd 2015
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A Room with a View
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 [...]
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
