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This spring I discovered a new gorgeous garden in the Netherlands called Kasteeltuinen Arcen (The Castle Gardens of Arcen). Although my visit was a bit early in the season to see the gardens at their …
People are always surprised when we tell them our cats are Canadian.
“You brought three cats to Belgium, all the way from Canada,” they exclaim. Well, actually it was four cats and our Saint Bernard joined …
As a garden photographer, you would think I’d have an amazing garden. Unfortunately I didn’t inherit nearly enough of my Mom and Grand-parents’ green thumbs. I hate mowing, weeding and dealing with pests. I’d much rather spend …
Although I’ve made several trips across the channel to London, England, Friday was the first time I visited Kew Gardens. Although I had been looking forward to it, Kew was even better than I expected.
For …
The Netherlands is known for tulips and every spring, millions of garden tourists travel to the biggest tulip garden in the world – Keukenhof Gardens.
Situated in the middle of South Holland’s tulip fields, in the town …
As you correctly guessed from my last post, I spent the past weekend in Holland, photographing gardens. I’ll be posting more about Keukenhof and Arcen over the next few days, but today I want to …
Sorry it’s been a while. I’ll give you four guesses where I’ve been hiding the last few days…
Our final day in Sardinia, we wanted to escape to nature. The sun was shining, but it was cool and windy, so it wasn’t a day for lying on the beach.
Instead, we headed to Lago …
Onto every parade a little rain must fall and, on day four, our Sardinian adventure got soggy.
Normally I don’t mind a bit of rain when I’m travelling. I just head inside to a museum, gallery …
The sun smiled on us again on day three of our Sardinian adventure. We decided to head south and check out the city and beaches of Bosa. As often happens when travelling, the journey was …
Day two in Sardinia was my favourite of the five. We learned a bit of history, saw some fantastic beaches, made beautiful flower find and even did a tad of rock climbing.
We were up and …
I am a huge fan of spur of the moment travel. While it’s great to tick destinations off the ‘Life List’ of travel, visiting somewhere you never considered travelling to can offer some wonderful surprises. …
As I start to pack my over-stuffed suitcases for my summer marathon journey across North America, I’m giddy with the thought of being surrounded by friends, family, food and feelings of home. Despite my current …
Last weekend I had a break from photographing gardens and instead spent my time photographing a little slice of heaven. I just never would have expected heaven to be so close to Wales.
Darren Rowse over at Problogger has presented his readers with an interesting challenge – Establish 7 links to your blog to posts in the following categories:
Your first post
A post you enjoyed writing the most
A post …
Ask any international food-lover what cuisine is missing from the endless offerings in Brussels and you’ll get the same answer – Mexican food. Andrew and I have been on a mission to find good Mexican …
In my last post, I wrote about Alison’s new phone, the HTC Desire. After bringing it home and setting it up, the next question was: which mobile operator should we use?
We hadn’t researched mobile operators …
