Childhood Memories Archives

Walking With Dinosaurs at the Eden Project

August 18, 2016August 18, 2016 Childhood Memories, Europe, Featured, United Kingdom cornwall, Dinosaurs, eden project, great britain, united kingdom

Did you know that if you venture deep into the Cornish countryside during July and August you can walk with dinosaurs? I wrote about the Eden Project last year (read the post here) about how it is a

Belgrade and Sarajevo: Cities Divided by War

August 18, 2013November 3, 2013 Childhood Memories, Europe, History, Travelling balkans, belgrade, bosnia, crime, europe, fighting, horror, sarajevo, serbia, siege, sniper, war, yugoslavia

In the summer of 1992 I was a happy and carefree 13 year old. I spent long and sunny days playing with my friends. I cheered loudly when Andre Agassi beat a little-known Croatian player,

Visiting the Anne Frank Museum, Amsterdam

January 6, 2013December 2, 2013 Childhood Memories, Europe, History, Travelling amsterdam, anne frank, europe, holland, holocaust, museum, tourism, travel

I read 'The Diary of Anne Frank' as a young teenager and, like many other readers of the novel, discovered not a gritty tale of Holocaust hardship but a vibrant young girl dealing with the

Warm or Cold Christmas?

December 25, 2012January 26, 2013 Asia, Beaches, Blogging, Childhood Memories, Food and Drink, Partying, Tradition, Travelling christmas, climate, festive, party, snow, travelling, white christmas

Whether Christmas is best celebrated in a warm climate or cold climate is a topic often discussed by travellers. The opinions of most tend to depend heavily upon where that traveller was raised. It is

Travel or Family, Do You Always Have to Choose?

February 8, 2012April 13, 2012 Childhood Memories, Friends and Family, Relationships, Tradition, Travelling, United Kingdom family, guilt, society, travel, travelling

Today is my birthday. It is not a significant birthday, the last one of those was three years ago, and the next one is still way off in the future—although we all know that the

Bad Wolf Bay: The Rugged Coastline of South Wales (UK)

May 8, 2011May 29, 2011 Childhood Memories, Europe, Travelling bbc tv, cardiff, doctor who, dr who, dunraven bay, europe, south wales, southerndown beach, uk, wales

Although I enjoy travelling the world and have branded myself a Runaway Brit, I do still appreciate the beauty of my home country. The UK is a small but diverse island and has many unappreciated

Snow Days

February 11, 2011April 25, 2011 Childhood Memories, Life in Sweden, School, Swedish Climate, Teaching europe, school, snow, snow day, sweden, teaching

Anybody who has attended or worked in a school in the UK will know how exciting it is when the winter brings the first snow, not so much because we love snow but because of

Driving Home for Christmas!

January 6, 2011April 15, 2011 Childhood Memories, Friends and Family

Okay, so this is TOTALLY cheesy... It's my journey home from Stansted to South Wales on the snowiest weekend in Britain for over 100 years. It took hours but it was so worth it :)

Snow Joke

December 19, 2010April 25, 2011 Childhood Memories, Life in Sweden, Swedish Climate europe, snow, sweden, swedish climate, weather

I apologise that so many of my posts are weather related at the moment and hope that you'll excuse me as a) I'm British so talking about the weather is what we do and b)

The roof top terrace taken from the lounge.

Another New Home

November 14, 2010October 11, 2011 Asia, Childhood Memories, Friends and Family, Travelling, Vietnam moving house, sweden, uk, vietnam

My Baltic adventure ended a week ago today as I stepped off the Tallink-Silja Festival and back onto Swedish shores. But new adventures are always awaiting and it was with a spring in my step

Lest We Forget – Remembering The Fallen

November 11, 2010December 2, 2012 Childhood Memories, History, Life in Sweden, School, Teaching, Tradition, United Kingdom conflict, flanders fields, macrae, oppression, poppies, remembrance, remembrance day, soldiers, sweden, teaching, uk, war

Poppy placed at 'Hellfire Pass', Thailand "Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them." Today is Remembrance Day: a

The Baltic Journals #2. A-ha

November 3, 2010October 11, 2011 Childhood Memories, Music, Travelling 80s music, aha, latvia, morton harkett, riga, riga arena

I was a bridesmaid 3 times during the decade of blue eyeliner, crimped hair and legwarmers and have already blogged about the numerous 80s wedding discos that I attended throughout that decade (http://elainethatcher.wordpress.com/2010/09/18/the-final-countdown-to-a-night-in-the-cells/). The 80s

Fancy Dress Friday

October 30, 2010December 30, 2011 Childhood Memories, Friends and Family, School, Teaching fancy dress, partying, school, sweden, teaching

Yesterday was the last day of an incredibly long half-term and what better way to celebrate than with a fancy dress day at school? The first time I used the phrase 'fancy dress' with Nicklas