Phyl's Blog

I moaned about it last year after my stay in Alkmaar, so there's no point in my ranting again... I just feel that it always hits me wor...

It's been hot for at least the last fortnight... For the first time in my  life I came home from Southern Europe without being blasted b...

I thought, given that very few people are actually doing it, I'd give you a first-hand account of travel during a global pandemic. Obvio...

It's a girl thing in our family, for the most part, anyway. We are hardly out of the plane and the mosquitoes are queuing up to welcom...

At the beginning of corona, Amaia came home from school saying she'd been explained the concept of social distancing as 'stand as if...

Anna's eyes aren't the same colour - it's never been very noticeable because she got glasses when she was three, but since sh...

My ex-husband has decided to be an artist instead of an IT guy, so if anyone fancies a weird and wonderful painting all the way from China, ...

Taking the parasol with the broken button back to Ikea... I was a wee bit worried a SWAT team might try to take us out on the way in. 😂 ...

When schooling moved outside mid-April because of Covid, and May and June were amongst the sunniest we've ever lived through, it had a v...

I took Amaia to the optician the other day to pick up her new glasses. While she was fitting Amaia's glasses, I decided to chat to the ...

Interesting conversation: Amaia: When I grow up I'm going to be a fashion designer. Me (surprised): Really? I didn't know you wer...

I've been puzzling over this for a year now... How can it be that this trip (350km/217 miles each way using a train, a coach and a fer...

Yesterday morning in Glasgow there were four flights from the usually busy international airport. We'd managed to get a ticket fo...

Maybe I'm just getting old, but can someone explain to me why these have suddenly become the must-have fashion item for teenagers around...

Denmark mostly doesn't feel like a very foreign place but just sometimes you some across a situation you would never encounter at home.....

I started my Lærdansk course on the 3rd of January. All foreigners who move to Denmark are eligible for a course in Danish to help them inte...

Last night we went to Ikea to buy a bed for Lots, assuming the buggers on the border ever let her come home 😒 As we were walking toward...

After a month at school alone, Amaia was finally joined this morning on the school bus by her older siblings. Léon is so excited he's go...

It has been an exciting week in lockdown world. First on Wednesday I went to IKEA for the first time since it reopened and there were people...

One thing we have noticed here, now the under 11s have been back at school for three and a bit weeks, is the toll it's taking on their...