Category Archives: Foreign Parts

I really liked Stock­holm. Good fish to eat in the res­taur­ants and sur­pris­ingly good beer to drink.  We wandered trhough the old town and found an eccent­ric bike shop which sold and hired out Bromp­tons, had a poster for the … Con­tinue read­ing →

A very few hours in Oslo poses the ques­tion of what to do.  Walk­ing on the Opera House roof is fun, watch­ing the har­bour is fun, get­ting lost around the castle is a bit try­ing, so we headed for what … Con­tinue read­ing →

I don’t do a lot of swim­ming, in fact only twice so far this year, neither time for very long, but both times in a lake.  At Lindau, in the Bodensee (Lake Con­stance) on a very hot day in July, … Con­tinue read­ing →

One of the delights of the area round Lake Con­stance is that the menus almost always include lake-caught fish — doubt­less the grown up ver­sions of the mil­lions of tid­dlers we could see at the water’s edge.  And then, because … Con­tinue read­ing →