Happy Birthday, Gram!
Greetings from Zermatt, Switzerland, where we are spending the birthday of grandmother extraordinaire, Linda Carl. We have a new song that we are debuting in her honor:
moo moo
As you may know, for the last week, we have been hut-to-hut hiking through the Swiss Alps. Rowena (who loves to develop little obsessions with random things) noticed a herd of cattle and instantly became obsessed with the chorus of the clanging of the cowbells around the herd’s necks. About three wonderful days later after […]
UK Food Reviews
WARNING WARNING DO NOT READ REVIEW #1 WHILE EATING!! The UK has all these different special tone definitions for pudding and things that sound really bad and tastes really good. Haggis, black pudding, yorkshire pudding and english bacon. Then they have got different drinks and types of restaurants, such as Irn Bru, pubs, ribena and […]
12 Hours in the Scottish Highlands
As parenting without the built-in breaks of school and outside activities for the kids seemed like it would be a wee bit tiring, Jeremy and I made a plan that each of us will take one day a week “off”, in other words entirely by ourselves. While we were staying in Achnacarry in the Scottish Highlands, […]
Our British Nanny
There is an iconic figure, at least to the American mind, that is some conflation of Mary Poppins, Jane Eyre, Maria from Sound of Music (OK, I know she wasn’t British, but Julie Andrews!), and countless Victorian novels. It is the British Nanny. Those who know me well know that I love both Victorian literature […]
Queen Mary 2 Food
As you know from reading the blog we were recently aboard the Queen Mary 2 which has a crossing duration of one week which of course means that we must be fed. And of course that food was delicious so I am here to review it. But of course with three meals for 7 days […]
New York Food Reviews
So Yew Nork *cough* New York is supposed to have good food eh? Well food critic Rainier Carl is off to see if that is true. First Zabar’s. I would give them a 5 rating out of 6. Don’t get me wrong it was delicious but there was one big problem if you wanted topping […]
Indoor Skiing, One of the Eight Wonders of The Modern World
By Shefler Carl Every year my mother does individual activities with us for Mother’s Day and this year my activity that I was going to do was go to Dave and Buster’s. Unfortunately, due to a crazy work schedule and school events, we weren’t able to go to Dave and Buster’s. A month later in […]
an Uneventful Transatlantic Crossing
Since we’re homeschooling the kids (actually the vogue term for what we’re doing is ‘worldschooling’), we’re having them choose books to read on each leg of the journey that are appropriate to the location. As I considered what to offer them for our week crossing the Atlantic Ocean, I, for obvious reasons, quickly discarded the […]
Our first public performance!
This was our act for the weekly talent show on the Queen Mary 2. Rehearsals were tricky as there is no instrument practice allowed in staterooms. We just tried to find some little corner and generally attracted a small audience who wanted us to put out a hat for them to throw coins into. I […]