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Ever since we read The Lost Gardens of Heligan, which narrates the story of the rediscovery and restoration of one of the great Victorian gardens of England by Tim Smit, we have been meaning to visit them in Cornwall. We recently discovered a second reason to visit Cornwall – the Eden Project: . . . → Read More: The Eden Project I am quite “under the weather” – I arrived back here with the beginnings of diarrhea, which has had me travelling every hour or two, day and night, between the bathroom and either my bed or a chair ever since we got in on Saturday. Thank goodness it didn’t start 24 hours earlier, or . . . → Read More: Impressions of Salamanca We just received these Q&As by e-mail. It has cheered me up – I didn’t notice the steps to our front door (see the photo in the previous post) were icy this morning and managed to hit my back on every step-edge on the way down to the ground. Feels like I may have cracked a rib, but for now I have decided to avoid going to the doctor on the basis that at this time of year I am likely to get flu and still suffer from the cracked rib… The questions below about Australia are from potential visitors. They were posted on an Australian Tourism Website and the answers are the actual responses by the website officials, who obviously have a sense of humour. Q: Does it ever get windy in Australia? I have never seen it rain on TV, how do the plants grow? (UK). Q: Will I be able to see kangaroos in the street? (USA) An article in the latest Economist highlights a problem with the biometric passports that the USA has been insisting be implemented by October 2005. I was aware that the new passports would carry data such as digital photographs or finger prints of the owner, which could be read out a chip integrated into the . . . → Read More: Electronic passports – a security problem Ruth has always been a great believer in using paper maps to navigate when she drives anywhere. Yesterday evening she set off the Cologne to attend the EuroSTAR 2004 conference on software testing, where she is presenting a paper on setting up a test lab. As usual, she declined to take our portable navigation . . . → Read More: A long time searching Ruth and I enroled a couple of months ago in Spanish evening classes – as you might have guessed, if you spotted the link we added in our general links section (on the right) – and are struggling to keep on top of the homework and learning all those new words. So these tips . . . → Read More: Learning a language Everyone wants a bit of the action: Debt-laden Eurotunnel to slash costs and capacity Eurotunnel’s revenues have never met its own projections because usage of the tunnel has been far below its expectations. Its trucks business continues to be hit by competition from ferry operators, while many potential car users take the ferry . . . → Read More: Getting away from the UK A couple of months ago I mentioned the real time traffic monitoring / forecasting site for Nordrhein-Westphalen, which has good forecasts of delays and jams for up to an hour ahead of time. There are quite a lot of real time traffic services on the web. Did you know, that you can also get . . . → Read More: Traffic jams – on the tube We had an invitation to visit Ingrid, an old friend of ours, who came back from a 9 year stint in London last year. She was holding a housewarming party in Korschenbroich, which is where she grew up and where her family still lives. It gave us an opportunity to try out our . . . → Read More: Weekend in NRW We’ve added an extra page with a list of hotels that we have visited and enjoyed in the last few years. I’m still playing around with the page – it is built from a mySQL database which also contains photos of the hotels, -but right now, I haven’t suceeded in reading the pictures out . . . → Read More: Hotel recommendations |
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