Author: aloysius-bear

The humans and I took a trip to Switzerland last week. We took the Eurostar to Paris, then another train on to our first destination – Lucern. The city has water running through and around it, with this lovely wooden chapel bridge making a centrepiece. It also has a section of old city wall atop…

The humans got together in Oxford just over ten years ago (which means I must be nearly ten years old myself now!), so decided to go back for an anniversary weekend trip. We spent a very pleasant lunchtime at the Thirsty Meeples Board Games Cafe: They have a few games… We had a chance to…

The humans and I took a whirlwind trip to Abu Dhabi this weekend to visit one of their friends from choir, who is working out there for six months. It wasn’t somewhere we would have ventured without the prompt of visiting a friend, and it turned out to be a fantastic experience. Our trip started…

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single bear in possession of a good human, must be in want of a house. I’d like this one, please! Cavendish Hall in Suffolk was built in 1810, so is very Austenesque, and also quite picturesque, if photographed from the right angle. One can take a refreshing…

We were walking down a street in Amsterdam on our first day there, and one of the humans spotted a poster for an exhibition of art made out of Lego. So, we looked up where it was and set out to see it the following day. It turned out to be one of the highlights…

Our hotel was at the top of the street where the bulb market is situated, so we wandered its length several times. It wouldn’t be Amsterdam without tulips, after all! What I wasn’t expecting was violently colourful cacti – when they decide to flower, they really decide to flower! This cheerful fellow gave us the…

The humans and I packed a lot into our three days in Amsterdam last weekend, so I’ve decided to do multiple posts over the next few days. The first post is all about buildings, starting with our rather fancy hotel, where the staff made us feel woefully under-dressed and under-educated, and the bedroom was more…

Hello! Welcome to sunny / rainy Shrewsbury (it was one of those weekends). This is the awesome Quantum Leap statue. It represents dinosaur bones, or DNA or a backbone (why have one interpretation when three will do? Perhaps that explanation will help! The humans and I went for the weekend folk festival. One of them…

The weekend before last, the humans and I travelled to Wilmington to celebrate 100 years since our family first arrived in the UK. We stayed at the Wilmington Priory, a very nice example of a Landmark Trust building, which giant landings and sloping roofs: There was a table tennis room with an awesome beamy ceiling,…

Last weekend, the human and I joined some of her friends at the Download rock festival in Donington Park. This little plot was home sweet home for a few days: We’d bought posh tickets, so we were allowed access to a special area just for posh people: It had a bar with a rather ambivalent…