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Tim Lynette Wilkins
Tim Lynette Wilkins

Tim Lynette Wilkins

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  • Tim Lynette WilkinsCamino road tripTraveler
    Bison
    HorseDeerBisonBisonHand prints

    Altamira

    September 9, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

    In 1868 a farmer and his daughter discovered the entrance to a cave in the mountains and inside they found the walls and ceilings covered in painting of animals, designs and hand prints. For years nobody believed that they could be old, but finally they established it to between 20,000 and 10,000 years BC. The cave was closed to the public in 1985 to preserve the paintings but they made an exact copy next to it, we went to today.

    Even though you know its a copy, it's still spectacular!    Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsCamino road tripTraveler
    Bison - I cheated _ this is a pic from a poster outside the Cave!
    Entrance to the caveStatue of a hand axeView from our hotel11th century monastery and churchFirst sign we've seen of the camino

    Cave with stone age paintings

    September 8, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C

    All along the range of mountains inside the cantabrian coast are caves where people lived after the last ice age. In many they left art on the walls showing hand prints , patterns and pictures of prey such as bison and deer.

    This morning we went to one a little south of the coast. It was wonderful- but no photos allowed!

    We stayedin a lovely medieval village at santillana del Mar. Although now packed full of tourists and shops of tourist tat, it is still a lovely place to visit,    Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsCamino road tripTraveler
    Paleolithic child's skullMammoth bones

    Santander

    September 7, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C

    All the arrangements worked so we were checked in to the hotel in santander by 2 pm, in time to go out and have lunch in a pavement cafe in the sunshine (yay!) . After a rest and a snooze we walked just along the street to the museum of prehistory and spent an hour or two there before strolling down the bay. We weren't expecting to like santander much, its mostly used as a ferry port to drive down south, but in fact it turns out to be a very pleasant city. The museum was really well done with lots of local artifacts going back 300,000 years!Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsA few days in CambridgeTraveler
    Trumpington cross- anglo saxon - 700 AD
    Anglo saxon pendant - crystal and amethyst - 7th c.Faience scarab - Egyptian- 600 BCMoche heads- peru- 500 ADMayan bowlOrrery - english- 1750

    Two more museums!

    August 26, 2022 in England ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

    So today we spent the morning in the museum of archaeology and ethnology, then the afternoon in the Whipple museum of the history of science. We'll go home tomorrow after lunch, and Natalie, Andy, Emily and finlay should be back from Rome in the evening.Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsA few days in CambridgeTraveler

    A few days with Janet

    August 25, 2022 in England ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

    On Wednesday we drove over to Cambridge to spend a few days with Janet. Today was a busy day, we went to the central Cambridge mosque in the morning. This is a spectacular building, very modern, but also incorporating traditional Islamic elements, and with wonderful attention to detail. I loved the sense of peace and tranquility.

    Afterwards we spent hours in the Fitzwilliam museum, full of Egyptian, Sudanese, greek, roman, Cypriot and Middle Eastern artifacts, and a big gallery of renaissance art.

    And ended up in the Cambridge round church, dating from 1115 ad.    Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsWhitstableTraveler

    Friday

    June 3, 2022 in England ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    Lynette and i had a quiet day in mostly, me with crosswords and lynette watching tennis on TV. Natalie took the kids out shopping and bought a hat for finlay and then some new books. There is an excellent bookshop here and after looking around a bit, Natalie found the kids settled into a comfy corner and engrossed. There is a hut on the beach that has crab sandwiches that lynette wanted to try so we all met up there for lunch. We got ours but soon after they ran out of food - it's been completely packed and seething here today, with huge queues everywhere. Finlay wasn't too taken with the crab, or with my squid, so we've found some seafood he isn't fussed about.Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsWhitstableTraveler

    Thursday

    June 2, 2022 in England ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C

    After a gentle walk up to the castle and a adventure playground we had lunch around the harbour (prawns again for finlay), we took a boat trip out to the ww2 forts off the coast and then to huge offshore windfarm . The forts were built to provide AA gun platforms to give some protection to the Thames estuary from German bombers going into London docklands. Afterwards some time on the beach and later dinner in a really good tapas bar at the end of our street.Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsWhitstableTraveler

    Wednesday

    June 1, 2022 in England ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C

    A gentle morning doing some more of the kids trail and spending some time on the beach hunting for shells. Lunch in the kiosks around the harbour- with another huge pile of mussels for finlay, who has also got a taste for scampi. I did try the oysters (it is whitstable after all) but I still can't say that I'm fussed. Finlay took one look and decided he didn't want to try them!

    Planning a boat trip tomorrow.    Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsWhitstableTraveler
    Sunset over the oyster beds
    Beach huts - now very expensive!Whitstable Castle-its fake!Wonderful Family mealSomeone loves the mussels!

    Tuesday

    May 31, 2022 in England ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C

    This morning lynette and I walked along the coast path to the next town, while Natalie and the kids did more of their trail, and this afternoon they went swimming at the pool in Herne Bay. The kids' swimming has come on so much since Christmas, finlay can now swim a length, and Emily a width. It's so pleasing to see.

    This evening we all went to dinner in a pub/restaurant and the food was so good. The kids were great company (not always the case!) And finlay is a complete nut for seafood, such as king prawns, scallops and mussels, all of which are really excellent around here. Later in the evening there was a singer performing in the bar so they got to enjoy that too, along with a walk on the beach in the sunset collecting shells like oysters and mussels. Nice day!    Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsWhitstableTraveler

    Walking around Whitstable

    May 30, 2022 in England ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

    We walked around Whitstable today. Natalie had brought a trail for the kids to follow, with questions and things to look for. The weather has been mostly cloudy and chilly but without much rain. There was a huge fire in the buildings in the harbour at the weekend, and we walked past it and saw the devastion.Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsEmily 5th birthdayTraveler

    Family party and dinner

    May 5, 2022 in England ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

    Natalie, finlay, Emily and the armstrongs came after school for Emily to open her presents and all have dinner. On Saturday she's having a party at her house for some of her friends.

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsJEREZ 2022Traveler

    Going home tomorrow!

    March 6, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C

    As usual I don't know how it's already time to go home. We went out last night and had a last sherry in the Square. Saturday night and it was buzzing, also the last weekend of the Flamenco festival. We need to be out before 7 tomorrow to get a taxi to the airport for our flight to Madrid and then Heathrow. If everything goes ok we could home by evening. Its sunny and warm here today with a gentle breeze. The forecast at home tomorrow night is -1 with a frost..... brrrrrr

    Final lunch in the sun today. The waiter last week spent some playing football in the Square with finlay. Today he wanted to know where his friend was!

    The apartment here has been pretty much perfect, so let's hope we can be back here again next year!    Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsJEREZ 2022Traveler
    The alcazar from the Bell towerOver some bodegas and out to the hillsOver the cathedral

    Cathedral bell tower

    March 5, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    When we have been here before the bell tower at the cathedral has been close with scaffolding all round it. They have now finished the renovation work so today I was able to climb it for the first time. Its not hugely tall but still gives views all over the city and out to the fields and hills around. Jerez is quite a low-rise city, except for the church spires, so there isn't a lot to see, but it's enough to be able to identify lots of the places we know.Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsJEREZ 2022Traveler
    La Carbona restaurant
    Natalie last week with a typical sherry measureLynette last night

    Fabulous food

    March 5, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C

    Last night we went for dinner at our favourite restaurant in Jerez - La Carbona. We introduced Natalie and Andy to it on a previous visit and they love it too. The restaurant is in an old bodega beautifully decorated and a lovely, calm space. It is not your normal tapas menu but high quality cooking using local ingredients. I took Natalie when she was here last week and she said the food was better than ever and she preferred it to their trip to Hestor Blumenthal's famous Fat Duck. As Tim's reward for baby sitting last week he got to go last night.

    As usual we had the tasting menu with a pairing of sherry with each course - as there are now 6 courses this is quite a feat. All were delicious - pate, seafood, risotto, fish, duck and ice cream. All small portions but sufficient, but the sherries are not small measures! The staff are very friendly and explain what each dish is. We are already looking forward to going again next year.    Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsJEREZ 2022Traveler
    Solera in the bodegaThe range of sherries we tastedTheir private art gallery

    A different sherry tasting

    March 4, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C

    Yesterday we went on a visit and sherry tasting to a bodega we have not visited before, the reason being it is very expensive. However , the bodega specialises in sherries with the classification of VORS (Very Old Rare Sherry) which we have not had much chance to taste. So we went along and had the usual tour explaining how sherry is made but with some extra info on how the sherry regulators control the classifications. The VORS sherry has to spend at least 30 years in barrel - as part of the solera - before being bottled. The tasting of 6 different types of sherry was good and interesting but confirmed our suspicion that we could not detect a sufficient increase in quality to justify the massive increase in prices - the sherry is sold for between 30 to 100 euros per bottle!

    The bodega also has it's own art gallery of paintings by Spanish old masters such as Goya, Velasquez, Zubaran which were very nice but not the best of their work.    Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsJEREZ 2022Traveler
    Phoenician head
    Phoenicians incense burnerRoman sculpture of a childRoman ring- don't know what the stone is!Roman glass sea shell

    Daytrip to Cadiz

    March 2, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    We took the train from Jerez to Cadiz this morning and spent a lovely day in the sun walking through the city that we liked so much when we were here before. A few hours in the museum, which seemed to be reorganised and all the information cards seem to have been lost! Then a walk to the market square where I bought some packets of Spanish chilli seeds last time, but although the stall was still there, it was closed and chained up, so I guess I will try to find some when we get home. Then lunch in a restaurant we also remember from before, and least that was still good! And a walk along the seafront in the sun can't go wrong!Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsJEREZ 2022Traveler

    Spring has sprung!

    March 1, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

    At least it has here! Today is 22c, clear blue skies and just a breath of a breeze. The orange trees still have a few lone oranges on, but now they are completely covered with flowers that will be next years crop, and the streets are full of the scent of orange blossom.

    Looking at the weather forecast at home, next week is going to be a bit of a shock!    Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsJEREZ 2022Traveler

    Andalucia day

    February 28, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C

    This morning we took the car back to Hertz at the airport and got a taxi back into Jerez. Its Andalucia day today, a public holiday so everywhere is closed - eating in tonight. I so remember andulcia day four years ago. We were in Chipiona with Natalie, Andy, Finlay and Emily who was just 8 or 9 months old, when the great storm blew in, and we all got drenched in howling winds and rain like a monsoon, but finlay still wanted to play on the beach in the rain!Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsJEREZ 2022Traveler
    The mummy returns! Lynette in a roman tomb
    Interior of a tomb with niches for offeringsOne of the larger tombsVery fine offering bowlTomb walls were covered with paintingsHuge tomb

    Carmona necropolis

    February 27, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    The necropolis has roman tombs ranging from simple holes in the ground to huge ones, with interior pools and banqueting areas. Most at least have niches in which to put pots, bowls and offerings to the gods on behalf of the dead.Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsJEREZ 2022Traveler
    Courtyard of the museum
    Urns from 600 BCTurdetanian pottery. A pre-roman civilisation.Roman mosaic found under a home in the modern city

    Carmona museum

    February 27, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C

    It seems that every town and city here has its own little museum about its history and heritage, and the Carmona museum, like the others, is very good.

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsJEREZ 2022Traveler
    The main gate into town originally Roman then Moorish
    Moorish Alcazar behind the gateOrange garden of the church, like in SevilleMecieval builing on the Plaza MajorPlaza MajorStreet with the door to our Posada (lovely B&B) on right

    Carmona

    February 27, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

    We stayed overnight in a really pleasant town to the east of seville, Carmona. Turns out this is quite a well-off town, and has been from before roman times, a local civilisation known as Turdetani, with an economy based on olive oil, wine, wheat, and cattle. It was an important roman city, then visigoths, then Muslim , before the present day one. As a result there are roman remains everywhere, and the present town centre is built on top of the roman city. Just outside the old city walls is a huge roman necropolis with some outstanding tombs, and tomb offering goods.

    Overall we really liked Carmona, it was a good place to wander around, a good discovery!    Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsJEREZ 2022Traveler
    The labyrinth
    Ariadne and bacchus

    Bacchus and Ariadne

    February 26, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

    As I'm currently reading the myth of Bacchus and Ariande, I was pleased to find a huge mosaic telling the story.

    Ariadne was the eldest daughter of King Minos of Crete. Every year Athens had to send a tribute of 6 young boys and 6 young girls, that Minos would send into the vast underground labyrinth which held the bull-headed monster of the minotaur. Theseus, Prince of Athens, came with one years tribute and, with ariadne's help entered the labyrinth and killed the minotaur. She fell in love with Theseus and when he left she sailed away with him,but he abandoned her alone on the island of Naxos.

    The god Dionysius (Bacchus) took pity on her and, enchanted by her beauty, married her.    Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsJEREZ 2022Traveler
    Sun mosaic from a set, with the moon and planets
    Amphitheatre, it could seat 25,000 peopleTigerOne of a set of colourful birdsBread ovens - they look ready for pizza!

    Italica

    February 26, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

    Having taken Natalie and the kids to seville airport and seen them off, we drove northwest of seville to visit the remains of the roman city of Italica. We were here over 20 years ago and remember the spectacular mosaics of a very rich roman city. Then it was completely open and we were free to wander around at leisure, but today we were disappointed to find large sections roped off entirely and other parts subject to restrictions and timed entries. The mosaics however are still wonderful.Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsJEREZ 2022Traveler

    Kids leaving tomorrow. Boohoo!

    February 25, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    Lunch in the main square in the sun for the last time as we have to drive to seville airport first thing tomorrow. Finlay tried mussels and said he liked them but there were lots left at the end, so I think he prefers clams. He also got stuck into the padron peppers, mild green chillies roast and spread with sea salt.Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsJEREZ 2022Traveler

    Clams

    February 24, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

    A few days ago I had clams for lunch and finlay tried them and loved them so yesterday he and I went to the fish market and bought some. We cooked them and had them as a starter for dinner. I had a few and Lynette had some but finlay cleared most of the bowl. He already loves prawns so I guess it's mussels next.Read more

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