Archive for the 'Holidays' Category

A trip to York

Sunday, 26th of October 2008

Last weekend Silke and I visited York in the North of England (this may be debatable, but coming from Cambridge it is the North). York is a beautiful city with a lot of medieval buildings including remainders of the fortification around its centre. The city was founded by the Romans almost 2000 years ago.

On Saturday [...]

Tales of Scottish Hills and No French Chocolate

Thursday, 19th of June 2008

Silke and I are back in Edinburgh. We had a great time during our last visit and there was just not enough time to visit all the interesting spots.
After wandering through Old Town and visiting Mary King’s Close yesterday we decided to go to Holyrood park and climb up on Arthur’s Seat today. During our [...]

Pinar de Tamadaba

Saturday, 14th of June 2008

As we didn’t get to the Pinar de Tamadaba on Thursday Silke and I made another attempt today. We drove over the island’s motorways almost to Agaete at the north coast of the island. Then we took a road south through the mountains. After cruising over the usual serpentines for an hour we reached a [...]