Showing posts with label little adventures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label little adventures. Show all posts

31 July 2017

Delft + tulips

Prepare for plenty of canal shots.


Near the central square in Delft.

Travels with Mom!





Keukenhof with Mom, Julia and Iza.
Sun dial


Those streets.
Delft in the evening light.

Chocolate, obviously.

Cycling in the Netherlands -- felt so right :)





So this weekend in the Netherlands (first visit for both Mom and I) was in late April/early May. You can tell I'm a bit behind with posting -- also getting a bit fed up with how long it takes to upload pictures to Blogger, so may make the change to WordPress soon (about 10 years after everyone else!). Watch this space.

15 November 2016

Life in Cambridge


Opening banquet for the Wilberforce Academy.

Hipster watering hole we visited for Camilla's birthday.

Release the Chimps -- in the running for favourite beer name ever.
Heather and her bridesmaids (note reflection), at The Coach Makers in London.
Morning of!
Goin' to the chapel.


Such a lovely bride!
Tel and Heather at All Souls! (Photo borrowed.)

The name of this pub made me think of my Great-uncle Jim.

A feather left after the filming of an episode of Grantchester in the Round Church.

Magdalene College, where C. S. Lewis taught.


Magdalene College Chapel.

Bonnie came to visit!

Trinity College.

Studying at the Round Church.
Cows on Midsummer Common.

The Fort St George by night.

Birthday gifts (belated but beloved).

Clouds, from Trumpington Street.
Going up to the gallery!

The east window, from the gallery.




Remnants of the set of James Norton's production of The Crucible. NBD.
Running along the Cam.

Chelsey and I exploring Grantchester.

"Snow" for the Christmas special of the Grantchester TV show.



The church in Grantchester.

The Orchard tea rooms.

Chelsey tried an apple!


Virginia Woolf, Rupert Brooke, Bertrand Russell and co. used to hang out here.



Chelsey looking autumnal :)

Thatched cottage.

Was trying to capture the flowers and accidentally got this gentleman in the picture.

The Blue Ball Inn.

Grantchester Meadows.
The Cam, near Queen's College.
The Cam, near Magdalene College.

Along my route to work.

Another walk in Grantchester Meadows.


A punt!
The pelican, a symbol of Christ's self-giving love for us (in Grantchester church). Read more here.




Love that they included the word 'Gent' in the inscription.

Holly!




The churchyard.




Not a bad way to spend an afternoon.

St John's College.


Queen's.

Queen's Old Library.

Be still, my heart!



All Saints' Garden.

Blues and Soul + beer + literature.
Morning mist.

Church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs.

Food for thought:

"We are all rather blessed in our deprivations if we let ourselves be, I suppose."  
- Flannery O'Connor -