It was 1972, and yesterday.
2017年5月14日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
It's only happened twice. The first time was 1972. I'm in the back yard at home in Greensborough. A thunderous roar breaks and rolls across the sky. I look up to see and wonder, for Concorde has comeもっと詳しく
Lost and found.
2017年5月15日, フランス ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
This week we are in Northern France. I have three great uncles buried here from WW1. One I can't find. The other two were brothers (my dad's uncles Albert and Edgar Galloway). There's also the deepもっと詳しく
Honour and Resentment
2017年5月16日, フランス ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Such a tangled three days for us visiting WW1 sites. We stopped by ten gravesides or memorials and three museums. Two visits were to honour family members, others were to honour Canterbury Baptistもっと詳しく
Brilliant Belgium.
2017年5月17日, ベルギー ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
It is said the French think they've got life worked out. Well the Belgians actually have : they are just totally cool about it. *
Brugge is a dine out feast for the eyes and tummy. Medievalもっと詳しく
Belguim's sunshine coast
2017年5月18日, ベルギー ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Here's a surprise. We start meandering to the edge of Europe, and behold: beach, classy shops, and apartments on the shoreline. A very familiar formula. The pic with four wheeler pushy is not our mainもっと詳しく
Welcome to Britain. Keep left.
2017年5月19日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
... And I do try to keep left in most ways. Ferry load and ride to get here from Calais is just like doing the Spirit of Tassie , just nine hours shorter. It took only a few hundred yards and someもっと詳しく
So good, I bought the t-shirt. Again.
2017年5月19日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
It was a wonderful end to a long day. Yesterday started on Belgium, then through France to the ferry. (Total Europe RHS driving distance = 3466 kms) . Though back in the UK, it was the end of the dayもっと詳しく
Waking in Windsor. Didn't expect that...
2017年5月20日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
It was already well after 10 pm as we set off in the camper from the Jon Gomm concert. Only the voice of Ms GPS to lead us to one of only two camper parking sites this side of Greater London. Fortyもっと詳しく
In family footsteps...
2017年5月23日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
All my days I've heard of these people. Uncle Jimmy, Aunt Iris... Now we share meal, lounge, heart.
All my days I've heard of these place names: Bradford, Halifax, Hebden Bridge, the Moors. Now theyもっと詳しく
Haworth, where Gordon learns something.
2017年5月24日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
It seems my government school education may not have been complete. Around the 1800s Patrick and Alice Bronte had six kids while he also pumped out sermons to deliver as vicar of the church nextもっと詳しく
York. (Its in Yorkshire, funny that.)
2017年5月25日, イングランド ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
How to cover 3000 years of history in a ten minute walk: visit York. Ancient Britains, Romans, Vikings, and any other shaped head you care to name, they've all called York home. The first 'Christian'もっと詳しく
Making Yorkshire + Yorkshire making me
2017年5月27日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
How to make a Yorkshire city. Take Melbourne's Hawthorn with all its narrow wriggly streets and dense housing. Put it on top of Mt Dandenong. Add all 'Footascrays' factories down below. Leave it allもっと詳しく
Winning the war, one byte at a time.
2017年5月28日, イングランド ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
It was early in World War 2.
The problem : break the code that communicates Hitler's strategic plans to his generals. These messages were coded AND encrypted by an unknown machine. This code was soもっと詳しく
Leaving our home away from home.
2017年5月30日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
It had to happen. After almost forty days we handed back our camper van. We (mostly) enjoyed 4000kms and almost 80 hours of driving. We've been quite comfy with soft beds, hot water, shower, kitchen,もっと詳しく
Back where we began. London.
2017年5月30日, イングランド ⋅ 🌙 17 °C
Lots to love in London. Up high and down low, inside and out.
We stayed in Citadines in Holborn for three nights, then at an Air BNB in Pimlico for four nights. Oyster cards meant travelling on theもっと詳しく
Creative beauty - God's, and St-Martin's
2017年5月31日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
We saw PLENTY of churches. St Martin-in-the-Fields could have been easily overlooked amidst busy Trafalgar Square. So glad I was encouraged to look harder. Transformation lives here - creativeもっと詳しく
I wasn't planning to dance, but...
2017年6月1日, イングランド ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
That's exactly what happens when special moments come around, like my absolute favourite singer songwriter does an impromptu acoustic concert. Jon Foreman of Switchfoot. In London. Ten minutes awayもっと詳しく
Praying for peace and people
2017年6月4日, イングランド ⋅ 🌙 13 °C
Hi. Just a moment to say we are ok but praying with, for, and in this city again. We happen to have been to all three eventful places within this city in recent days.
G+H xx
P.S. A terrorist attackもっと詳しく
Still enjoying London...
2017年6月4日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Sunday. Hours after, the terror ripples on through the city. But it does not stop us. We all go quietly, gently, respectful of the pain felt across this community.
For us it meant worship and lunchもっと詳しく
Uncle Fred
2017年6月5日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
I reckon many people have an uncle Fred, but you don't have mine. A character all his days, he now lives quietly on the edge of London. This was our first chance ever to see him in his own home, town,もっと詳しく
Goodbye Europe, Hello Australia
2017年6月6日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Even Heathrow seems quiet today,
And so are we.
Glad for a lifetimes worth of experiences
Ready for the lifetime of loving and serving that lay ahead (well, after a few more mini holidays in theもっと詳しく



















































































































































































