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Brixham Sailing Weekend

admin — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:21:15 +0000

Tom and I went back to the UK for a few days, with the intention of going down to Brixham for a sailing weekend on Mum and Dad’s sailing boat, together with my sister Caroline and Polly, her daughter. We arrived on the Friday just in time for fish and chips in the town. Very […]

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Tom – Project Tanzania

admin — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 09:25:11 +0000

Project Tanzania Signing up to go away for 4 weeks during your summer holiday isn’t an easy choice to make, even when you aren’t living in an area where the standard of living isn’t too great. Every year the project takes a group of students from our school to a school in rural Tanzania, where […]

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International Fest

admin — Sat, 19 May 2012 22:27:46 +0000

Today was International Fest day at school. The annual fund raising event with all the different nationalities all having a stall to sell things, goods, food etc from their country. Packed again, nice Belgian beer on sale for a change, plenty of food from all over the place and live music. Which is where Tom […]

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Tom playing Piano at school concert

admin — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:40:31 +0000

We all went to whats called ‘Tanzania Night’ at the school last night. It’s an event held annually to raise money for Tanzania schools that the school here has been doing for 20 years. Many of the students make groups, perform dances, sing etc and we all drink, eat and watch. So, Tom played piano […]

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Angermund

admin — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:42:50 +0000

Short post this one. Lovely Autumn day today, cold, sunny and a heavy mist this morning when I got up. So having taken the kids to school I got home, picked up my camera and Annie (the dog) and I went off into the woods. A nice stroll, steadily getting cold hands and stopped every […]

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Sailing

admin — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:06:18 +0000

In the summer the boys went back to the UK for a couple of weeks. Mum and Dad took them off for a week to their boat moored in Brixham, and finally sent me a copy of the DVD they made from their trip along the south coast. Seems like Tom and Jamie had a […]

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Rothenburg ob der Tauber

admin — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 20:18:24 +0000

We stayed in Rothenburg ob der Tauber on the way back, about 4 hours south of Düsseldorf, a pretty town on the ‘Romantic Road’. Arriving at our hotel in a nearby village we ate out at a very German restaurant in the Rothenburg, and took a little walk around before it got too dark. Tom […]

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Neuschwanstein & Munich

admin — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:13:52 +0000

We had spent the previous day at BMW World again on the factory tour. Which was very good, if a little tiring, with lots of walking, but the robots were pretty cool, and very clever at what they do. Afterwards spending the afternoon in Munich, with a quick visit to the famous “Munich Hofbraeuhaus” But […]

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BMW World

admin — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:48:31 +0000

We’d ordered a new car, well, leased one in fact as the old 3 series was becoming increasingly expensive to run with recent spend on a new turbo, and past high costs on headlights, leaks etc; not a good car. So after test driving a few alternatives such as an Audi A4, Audi Q5 (which […]

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Prague

admin — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 17:55:17 +0000

We made the 2 hour drive from Dresden to Prague via a detour to some castle on a hill. I had taken a photo but it was wet, and we didn’t get out of the car as it seemed from the ‘trip advisor’ reviews that there wasn’t too much to see once you’d paid the […]

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