It’s easy to make assumptions about a country whilst sitting in an armchair at home. There is always the unexpected be it the food, the people, the countryside. What a pleasure it was finding fields filled with tall stems of maize nodding in the autumn sunshine with the back drop of the Carpathian Mountains. A …
Tromsø Wikipedia says Tromsø is ‘the largest urban area in Northern Norway and the third largest north of the Arctic Circle’. There is a bridge and a tunnel connecting the centre to the mainline and another bridge to the Island of Kvaloya. Tromsø bridge as seen from Fjellheisen Cable Car station It is supposed to …
Sailing boats moored on the River Tamar one misty evening Sometimes in our South West corner of Britain, we have what we call ‘the San Fransisco effect’. Basically, the cold air from the sea hits the warm air of the land causing fog. That week, we had had a lot of heat. Throw into that …