• ‘Val d’Isere Trail Race’ or ‘My high-altitude mid-life crisis’

    ‘Val d’Isere Trail Race’ or ‘My high-altitude mid-life crisis’

    This past summer saw us wrapping up our four years in France, and this particular  quatorze juillet – la fête nationale -( what we foreigners call ‘Bastille Day’ )- I turned 40. We spent the weekend of my birthday in the breathtakingly beautiful village of Val d’Isere – as there was a trail race that I wanted to…

  • Family Trip to London – RAF Museum

    Family Trip to London – RAF Museum

    On our family’s last full day in London, we took the train out to the Royal Air Force Museum.   NOTE: If you’re wondering “why are they telling us about what they did in April?”..it’s because this blog has in many ways become a family photo album for us. It seemed like there were too many…

  • Family trip to London – Part II

    Family trip to London – Part II

    The rest of the week in London was equally amazing. (click HERE for Part I of our family trip to London) Our next full day we started by heading to the Tower of London.     We stopped to have a closer look at the Tower Bridge Spent a bit of time wandering through Tate Modern…

  • Run for Burundi

    Run for Burundi

    Yesterday our family took part in a run to raise money for some projects that a local church is doing in Burundi. So we decided it would be a good idea for us to Run for Burundi.   The Run for Burundi was a 5K fun-run – so we all decided to run it together – but…