Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts

07 October 2011

things to do on your last night in Athens

hang out in Taverna Psiri
Nick via email: Sitting outside under a tree with Tom eating Greek meatballs and Kasia drinking Alfa beer

06 October 2011

it's all about family

Nick, Leon and Mary
Kasia, email to Mama/Ela/Babcia:
Leon is a really cheeky crazy monkey! Nick even has a little scratch on his cheek from a wrestling match with all the kids last night at Kimon and Irene's house. Everyone is really lovely.
Greece is like Leon

Polly & Mary

Nick, Tom and a bendy frappe glass

04 October 2011

Aegina

sunglasses on the ferry to Aegina...

temple at Aegina

view from Mary's apartment on Aegina

Polly & Mary on the island

 
 evening view of the pier at Aegina before coming back to Athens


ferry leaving for the trip back to Athens

where is Aegina?
it's an island close to Athens, here's a picture
email from Kasia,
We sailed (ferry) to Aegina, just an hour off Athens, yesterday and the first page of a little promo booklet about the island that Mary gave us described the journey as
An hour on deck with a cup of coffee and time to smoke two cigarettes...
idea for future Greek temple...?


things to do in Athens on a Sunday

 




Who is this with [a] Greek obwaszanki?‏

No doubt related to this person wearing obwaszanki necklace‏



What to do if you happen to be at the cafe of the archaeological museum: Baclava and nescafe frappe



after the museum!

28 September 2011

to the lighthouse ... an adventure story

at the mouth of Gironde Estuary is the Cordouan lighthouse, built in the 17th century


  
      

find out more information about the Cordouan lighthouse here

Henry writes in the logbook‏,
"the lighthouse is awesome"





stopping for a biscuit break ...
on the way back to the boat, sinking into the sand




let the good times roll ... (finally pomme frite!!)

With mussels and pomme frites for lunch in Paulliac

24 September 2011

out and about in Paris, 20- September

tom on scooter at Le Louvre,
eating ice-cream by the Seine (Place de la Concorde in the background?)


email correspondence
Mon to Nick: =have tom and especially henry met any pomme fritte yet??
Nick to Mon: oys have met mr croissant. No pomme fritte yet.





kasia, tom, henry at the top of the Eiffel tower (or getting there)

Tony on Hen's scooter, Jardin d'Acclimatation

tom, notre dame (helmets required what with gargoyles falling on your head and such like)


I have eaten a lot of cheese and ridden one of those parisian hire bikes