Tag Archives: hills

A trip to Middle-earth, the Shire and Hobbiton (Rousse)

Posted on September 28, 2013 by Dreamaticus

She was only just back from her summer holiday, yet already AM was off on another exciting trip – to Hobbiton in Middle-earth. I clicked the link that she had posted to her Facebook wall and marvelled at the photographs … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged accommodation, ball, beard, beards, chalk, dinosaur, doors, Facebook, Fairy Glen, fast food, ferry, geology, glacier, grass, hill, hills, Hobbiton, holiday, husband, island, Isle of Man, kilts, lawn, link, men, Middle-earth, mobile, mountains, mow, mower, old, park, phone, shack, Shire, Skye, summer, trees, trip, windows | Leave a comment

Leicestershire treasure haul “given away” to tinkers (Rousse)

Posted on August 22, 2013 by Dreamaticus

I enjoyed watching the workmen dig the trenches across the Leicestershire field as they prepared the ground for a new motorway. They invited me to jump down into a small pit where they had piled up interesting objects discovered during … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Antigua, coins, currency, debris, dig, excavations, field, ground, haul, heart, hills, jump, Leicestershire, motorway, objects, pit, Prague, pre-decimal, Roman, tinker, tinkers, treasure, trenches, workmen | Leave a comment

Tsunami safety (Rousse)

Posted on July 30, 2013 by Dreamaticus

The plan was that I would send a few more e-mails before heading home for the weekend. I delayed this a little more when I accepted an invitation to go and sunbathe on the pier. Everyone was enjoying the casual … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bed, casual, chatter, e-mail, flat, hills, invitation, mountains, mud, mudflats, pier, plan, river, safety, sea, sea water, sign, silver, sunbathe, swell, TPR, tsunami, valley, water, weekend | Leave a comment

Chasing Rupert Grint in the dark (Rousse)

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Dreamaticus

My sister J and I walked along the middle of Darlington Road as far as the junction with Kenton Close. The houses were spaced out more widely than we remembered, in a landscape of lush green fields and rolling hills. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged chase, corridors, dark, Darlington Road, door, dream, fields, green, Hartburn, hills, houses, Kenton Close, landscape, lush, pursuit, Rupert Grint, snow, Stockton-on-Tees, White House | Leave a comment

Muddy bush women prove excellent runners (Rousse)

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Dreamaticus

I was doing well, hill training with LM and SS in the woods. On the way back up through the trees I bounded past the pair of them with hardly a need to draw breath. My athletic achievement was soon … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged athletic, bush, hill, hill training, hills, mud, muddy, runner, runners, running, speed, tree, trees, women, wood, woods | Leave a comment

The world’s most beautiful identical triplets (Rousse)

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Dreamaticus

It had been a very long journey over the hills by tandem and car, but now we were finally in Canada and about to meet yet another set of cousins. I couldn’t wait to see the three girls known as … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged beautiful, Canada, car, cousin, cousins, hill, hills, identical, tandem, triplet, triplets | Leave a comment

Sunshine in the Highlands, a glug jug and a job offer in New York (Rousse)

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Dreamaticus

I hoped for good weather to show off the highlands to my sister-in-law SB. She had never travelled so far up the country before and I wanted her first impressions of the north of Scotland to be memorable for the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Aberdeen, antique, antiques, blue, glug, gurgle, highlands, hill, hills, holiday, holidays, iPhone, jug, jugs, mobile, mother, mountain, mountains, New York, north, price, professor, shop, shops, sister-in-law, skies, sky, sun, sunny, sunshine, UN, Uniited Nations | Leave a comment

Danish Marmite verdict – not as bad as you might expect (Rousse)

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Dreamaticus

While top fashion designer MSB prepared for the visit of AF, my sister J and I headed for the Pentland Hills. We timed our visit to watch the release of geese at the start of the shooting season. We didn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bird, birds, Dane, Danish, deluge, Denmark, designer, enthusiasm, fashion, food, geese, goose, guano, hills, Marmite, Pentland, Pentland Hills, poo, shooting, sister, sky, snack, sulk, sulky, teenage, teenager, toast, verdict | Leave a comment

Walking in Glencoe bereft of map and boots, but with Take That (Rousse)

Posted on October 16, 2011 by Dreamaticus

I was the reluctant leader of a small running club expedition to Glencoe. Unqualified for the role, I was making a complete mess of it. First, we arrived far too late in the afternoon to tackle any of the interesting … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Amazon, atlas, boots, boyfriend, chip, climb, climbs, date, death, die, Edinburgh, Glencoe, hill, hills, leader, legend, legends, map, mountain, mountains, music, myth, myths, niece, Ordnance Survey, route, routes, running, shoe, shoes, stood up, Take That, taste, tastes, TPR, trainer, trainers, walk, walking, world | Leave a comment

Murder in the machair (Rousse)

Posted on October 1, 2011 by Dreamaticus

Although I had no idea what I was doing here, I recognised the familiar Harris landscape: islands, hills and the single track road, the perfect combination for cycling holidays by tandem. The official pushed open the roadside gate and led … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged beach, bodies, body, cliff, confess, confession, death, gate, Harris, hills, holiday, holidays. official, interrogation, island, islands, machair, murder, Outer Hebrides, questioning, sea, Seilebost, shore, single-track, tandem, Western Isles | Leave a comment