Yorkshire Dales

Winter Break Report

Over the winter holidays, Tom and I travelled to England to basically spend two weeks in pubs. It was great and we enjoyed every rainy second of it!

The day we left, Montpellier was bright and sunny and England was grey and rainy. From Heathrow we rented a car and drove down to Rye on the south coast. We checked into the Ship Inn and pretty much immediately got stuck into some local ales. Rye is a very pretty town, very quiet at this time of year, but is full of interesting streets to wander up and down and around on. There are also many pubs to visit.

Rye, South England
Rye, South England

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Pronoms

I’ve been working on a new app lately. It’s a sort of grocery list creator based on recipes that you enter into the application.

The inspiration is that I’m sick and tired of going to the supermarket every day and trying to think about what to cook each evening. Neither Tom or I have time these days for such foolishness, so the app helps you plan a menu of meals and then gives you a list of ingredients required for that menu. We’re using it so that we only have to think weekly about what we will cook and we can do all the shopping just once for the whole week.

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Loch Moidart

New Flickr Set – the Scottish Highlands

July 2014 was pretty busy for Tom and me. We had just packed up and moved from Germany to France, found a new flat and Tom started a new job. I was about to start Ironhack and begin a new career.

Loch Moidart
Loch Moidart

It was also when my dear friend Vikki got married in the Scottish Highlands and she had asked us to join them. It was a magical, beautiful trip, the only problem was that it was sadly far too short.

Loch Moidart
Loch Moidart

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