Spain Sittin' Pretty Hello kind reader, I hope your summer is progressing swimmingly. Here in Mallorca things are swell. I just turned 4 months old and pulled a few more tricks out of my bag to keep the authorities interested: some vocal work with the letter 'R' (tough going to roll
Spain The Heat Is On It's too hot and not much is happening but here are some pictures from the last few days. A whole group of sail boats anchored right in front of our house a few evenings ago. During sunset one of the guys shimmied* up to the top of the
Spain Food, Food Everywhere Nor Any Bite to Eat Hello, your favourite baby blogger here again. I'm sure you've been wondering what I'm up to, what with the authorities hogging all the space on this site. So let me tell you, they're starving me. That's right. And I'
Spain With the Speed of Light Just a little visual aid to show how much Small Paw has grown. Exhibit A, 2 days old: Exhibit B, 12 weeks old:
Spain Calvià We felt like we needed to get out of the house the other day so we took a lunch time trip to Calvià, the "governing" city of our county. We've only ever seen it from afar and it looked cute but we'd never actually
Spain Sa Bruta, the Roof of Paguera The water is still a bit too cold to actually go swimming (although Conor has braved it once and lives to tell the tale) so we're trying to get our exercise in other ways. Yesterday we went walking up to Sa Bruta, the small mountain behind Paguera. It&
Spain My Day I thought it would be a good idea to introduce myself and get started early on the whole writing thing so here goes my first guest post. Hope you like it. The authorities of the house are still quite dependent on me so I have to spend a lot of
Spain Short Walk to Camp de Mar Camp de Mar isn't far - it's the next bay over from our house - but the walk there does involve a hike through the woods over a large hill. There's a little tower at the top from the 1580s when they had to
Spain The Smallest Paw on the Road Maybe you've noticed we haven't posted in a while? Sorry about that but we've been a bit busy expanding the Paws family. Please meet the smallest paw on the road. She's still tiny but already well-versed in the art of travel. Now
Spain Gaudí revisited It's been a few years since we've done any actual touristing around Barcelona so a visit from our friend Giulia was the perfect opportunity to rectify that. She wanted to see the Sagrada Familia and to complement the Gaudí experience we also went to see La
Spain Taking a Breather It's curiously fitting that we should move back to Barcelona (albeit temporarily) exactly 4 years to the month after originally leaving. So much has happened since then, most of which we didn't even imagine before we left: getting our advanced diving certificates, surviving a major earthquake,
Venezuela Jumping Into the New Year We spent the holidays with family in Caracas which was, well, the same as usual. This time around there was no sugar or flour to be had for love or good money but we made the best of things and baked cookies without flour (coconut macaroons FTW!) and using grated
England Time Flies When You're Having Fun Happy New Year! This is a very delayed post to wrap up some more things about London but we had such a good time that it'd be sad not to tell you about it. Not to use an easy cop-out but it really did feel like time simply
England London, a Quick Summary Who comes to London in November? Really, who?! That's probably what most of you are thinking right now. And it's a valid point since the weather here is generally not well spoken of and November is probably not a pretty month anywhere in the northern hemisphere.
Italy Harvest Time Since setting our paws on the road 3 years ago we haven't managed to come home for the harvest since more exotic locales usually beckoned around that time: Mexico, South East Asia, New York City. But this year we're finally in Italy for the big event
England Wrapping up Summer We're back in the southern parts of Europe but still drawing from our lovely time in England so here are a few more random images from the trip.
England Wet and Wild We spent the past week on a narrow boat cruising the Shropshire Union Canal. Seven adults, two kids and one toddler; surprisingly everyone made it out alive. (There were bets taken in the beginning who'd be chucked over the side of the boat first. Odds were heavily in
Spain Fun and Games at the Seaside We're going through visitors like a popular country hotel on a bank holiday but it's lovely seeing friends and family and finding new parts of the island that we might not explore otherwise. For example we finally (FINALLY!) made it to Es Trenc, one of the
Spain Alcudia With Claudia (it's an anagram!) When Claudia (remember her?) came to visit us last week we had to come up with some more exciting things to do than sitting on our balcony and going swimming twice a day. So we packed them into our car, ignoring the cries of suffocation from the back due to
Spain A Stroll Through Palma Palma has a very pretty old town which only few tourists care to visit (still enough, considering the masses of tourists that come to the island every year).
Spain On Summer Leave We're in our usual summer habitat – Mallorca – enjoying the sea and the sun. Life is calm and uneventful, just like it should be. Unless of course there's a fire. A cab driver told us that during fire emergencies like this the choppers and planes can refuel
Germany The Wall Of course we visited some sections of the former wall, at least where there was anything left since most of it is gone now. One of the most infamous sections of wall was built on Bernauerstrasse where the wall ran practically through the houses. So one could enter the house
Germany Potsdam Just about 30km outside of Berlin lies Potsdam, a small city so perfectly put together that you feel like you're on a movie set at times. There are castles, lakes, blooming meadows and cobble stone streets lined with cute cafés and restaurants. No wonder the Prussian emperors had
Germany Visiting Angie Technically it wasn't really her but her 'minions' we visited at the Reichstag, the seat of the German parliament, but it was exciting anyway. And thanks to hubby's new connections, i.e. being a student again, we got a free tour of the whole
Germany Some More Sightseeing This weekend we headed over to Schloss Charlottenburg, the summer residence of various emperors and kings when those were still de rigeur here in good old Germany. The castle took quite a hit during the second world war but it's been meticulously rebuilt over the decades and looks
