Peace has descended once more on the Lys Valley. The Vikings have left the building. We suspect that they departed in the wee small hours and decided not to do anything as mundane as go to bed. Nightlife here is limited – we did once see a person dance on a table in bar butContinue reading “The Vikings Have Left the Building”
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That Monday Morning Feeling…
If you read my last post, you will know that we are suffering a few issues with a full scale Viking invasion. Last night, The Vikings went a’Viking once again. Yes –you might not know that Viking, or more correctly, Vikingr, is actually a verb used to describe men behaving badly with beards, backpacksContinue reading “That Monday Morning Feeling…”
A Viking Charm Offensive – and Other Oxymorons.
Oxymoron – noun [ok-si-mawr–on]. Rhetoric. “A figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in ‘cruel kindness’ or ‘to make haste slowly.’” We went to bed in rapt antici…pation of an early start and getting first tracks, but our plans went horribly awry at midnight. The Vikings arrived! We got a small sense of how the monks of Lindisfarne might have felt in AD 793. We cowered in the dark while doors slammed,Continue reading “A Viking Charm Offensive – and Other Oxymorons.”
Pups in POW!
We awoke to a very different Monday morning. We were up with the larks at,er, 11:30! After our journey of 1000 miles, we both felt like we had been bulldozed. It was a beautiful bluebird day but neither of us felt anything like skiing. With no new snow for some time, the conditions were quiteContinue reading “Pups in POW!”
World Wide Walkies 