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Chins’s First Emperor – Terracotta Warriors
For over 2,000 years, an underground army of life-sized terracotta warriors secretly guarded the tomb of China’s First Emperor, Qin Shi Huang, until a chance discovery in 1974 unlocked the mysteries of a vanished empire…..
Riga – A Baltic Adventure
A fun, active and cold city break to Riga brought lots of photo opportunities and completed our travels to all three Baltic States. We stayed for four nights at the cosy and fabulously located Old Riga Palace Hotel (Trip Advisor review) and so had three … Continue readingRiga – A Baltic Adventure
Riga – Art Nouveau District
The Art Nouveau in Riga was well worth a trip up out of the old town to see it, the buildings were ace. I have put together a collection of photos from the area as promised, some may not be Art Nouveau I am no … Continue readingRiga – Art Nouveau District
International Women’s Day – Big Bad Feminist Quiz Night
Liverpool Girl Geeks, in partnership with Grrrl Power Liverpool, celebrated International Women’s Day by holding a Big Bad Feminist Quiz at Frederiks, Hope Street. a few of us went along and our team name “We tried” proved to be quite an apt one as we … Continue readingInternational Women’s Day – Big Bad Feminist Quiz Night
A Lush night out – Chocolates and Grapes
Some of the Lush crew out and about in Liverpool. After starting of in Café Nero, we paid a visit to the wonderful Kimos for ‘tea’ after getting some dosh back in Tesco’s (What to buy though? A box of Guylian of course) and then … Continue readingA Lush night out – Chocolates and Grapes
3 hours 3 Galleries – Liverpool
What to do on a really bitterly cold day at the start of March…? Well, being blessed, we have in Liverpool a host of wonderful galleries so I decided to visit 3 of them in 3 hours. Two are in the Albert Dock complex, the … Continue reading3 hours 3 Galleries – Liverpool
Board not Bored at the Sugar and Dice
A café with lots of cakes and board games to play? Yup count me in on that! Margie and Jack asked us along to play a few games and we were still there 6 hours later! There was a great little place called Sugar and … Continue readingBoard not Bored at the Sugar and Dice
Mersey Coastal Reserve – Higson’s Brewery
A fine day so we thought we’d pop along to the Speke/Garston coastal reserve. Some fascinating views across the rivers can be had.. and you get to see the planes coming in at the end of the airport’s runway. Afterwards we thought we try out … Continue readingMersey Coastal Reserve – Higson’s Brewery
Orchid Growth – Buds galore in January 2018!
So, we are nearly at the end of January so that means it’s time to give y’all an update on growth in my orchids!! Exciting!! …and it is pretty bloody exciting (for me anyway) given that I have loads of flower buds on most of … Continue readingOrchid Growth – Buds galore in January 2018!
Liverpool Prom and Architecture
Always nice to take a walk along the Mersey from Otterspool into the City.. There is always something of interest happening on the way. And of course once you are there lots of interesting building to take photos of!