View of the Stockholm city center from the sea.

Stockholm in May

A family weekend in Stockholm, Sweden in 2017. We visited Skansen, a sort of open air museum and went for a boat tour of the Stockholm Archipelago.

The Brandeburg Gate

A weekend in Berlin

A weekend in Berlin with my family in 2016.

Carciofi alla romana

Carciofi alla romana – Artichokes the Roman way

I love artichokes. In and around Rome there are many ways of cooking artichokes, like…

Flowers are beautiful, but orchids…

All flowers are beautiful. I love them all, from the humble wild flowers growing in…

The seal in the water

It was a beautiful day and I decided on the spur of the moment to…

The Great Barrier Reef, Australia

The other day I was reading that the Great Barrier Reef is dying.  We need…