Where were we? Still here. Where should we have been After five lovely days in St Petersburg, where we celebrated Lucy’s birthday, we got a very late overnight train to Moscow, arriving early on Wednesday morning. We’ve had a great few days in Moscow, visiting friends and Harriet has bored… Continue reading
Where were we? For the fifth week in a row we remain in exactly the same place. Tomorrow we will have been here for the same amount of time as we were previously travelling. Where should we have been? When you left us last week we should have been staying… Continue reading
As I write Emmanuel Macron is speaking to the French nation. Ben is watching while I try and chivvy the children into bed and to hang on to the hope of good news. It is not to come. The lock down, our confinement, is going to continue here for at… Continue reading
One of my goals for this adventure has been to run in each country we visited, and I have managed this to date, recording each of them on Strava, a phone app which tracks your progress by GPS. Since we have been stuck in France, this challenge has changed somewhat,… Continue reading
Where were we? No prizes…. But we remain safe and healthy and we continue to comply with all lockdown requirements. The surroundings could be a lot worse. Where should we have been? We hesitate slightly to put this in here, but we sort of want to keep track of what… Continue reading
Where were we? Still France. Still not going more than 1km from our front door. (Apart from Ben who gets to go to the supermarket once a week). What did we do? More of the same, really. We have settled into our routine, which is not really a routine as… Continue reading
I realise we are not, and probably now never will be (at least not on this trip), in Slovenia, but I had the book, so I was jolly well going to read it. It’s the next best thing to being there, right? I’ll get a real sense of Slovenia culture… Continue reading
After my failure to try and find a book in English that encapsulated the spirit and culture of each country we have so far visited (funny that), I decided to give up on both my criteria. As a result my French book was a) a detective novel and b) (deep… Continue reading
The lack of control that we have over being in lockdown, and what we do while we are confined, is something which I expect is affecting many of (the wider) us. Here in France, I think we are probably a week or so ahead of the UK and about 10… Continue reading
Where were we? Silly question…. still France. Why aren’t we coming home? Earlier this week, Dominic Raab, the UK Foreign Secretary (*refrains from political comment*) advised all British citizens “currently on holiday or business trips abroad” to come home “while they still could”. We are not taking Mr Raab’s advice… Continue reading
