I sure hope this is big enough for you Linny! We showed our goods to the world just to get you a happy birthday snap, hope you're day was as fun as us trying to get this!! Love you ooooooodles! Andrew and Ferry xoxo
The husband's feet. Just before we did some photo-feet dancing on a breakwall in Luarca, Spain.
Me, thinking tall thoughts.
The boy, beside a church, beside an ocean.
My best Mary Poppins. Although this Mary Poppins landed flat on her back after her flight. Muddy ground meant I had a kinda-looks-like-poop streak down the back of my jeans for the rest of our holiday.
An old man, in an old city, reading a letter with a pigeon looking on, Porto, Portugal.
This might or might not be part of Dad's Christmas present. Just don't tell him that we used it first, although does a photo prop count as being 'used'? Sao Jacinto, Portugal.
We spent a long, long time watching a long, long line of bicycles go past while we were on our way to finding a camping spot. I think the Dutch may have got the Portuguese share of efficiency as we found out when there was a bike ride, single lane bridge, emergency vehicles and lots of Sunday beach-goers all clogging up this tiny, rural lane. It was entertaining though, there were a whole lot of big characters cycling by on crazy bikes with radios strapped to their handlebars.
Two old men. Salamanca, Spain.
And the coolest of all, catching some sun outside the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.
We arrived home late yesterday afternoon. We've been unpacking, washing and wishing we were still on holidays ever since. Here's the map, our trail is highlighted-right from the top all the way to the bottom left and onto another map. The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands. Woh. I'll be filling you in on the details in the next few days, I just have to sort through 897 photos first. I'll also be having a serious read of the blog, it looks like everyone's had a good (or shaky) two weeks!
I came across this while I was doing some research. How fun to know that Homeschoolers can turn out famous and wonderful.
1. Agatha Christie. Agatha was a painfully shy girl, so her mom home schooled her even though her two older siblings attended private school.
2. Pearl S. Buck was born in West Virginia, but her family moved to China when she was just three months old. She was homeschooled by a Confucian scholar and learned English as a second language from her mom.
3. Alexander Graham Bell was homeschooled by his mother until he was about 10. It was at this point that she started to go deaf and didn’t feel she could properly educate him any more. Her deafness inspired Bell to study acoustics and sound later in life.
4. If Thomas Edison was around today, he would probably be diagnosed with ADD – he left public school after only three months because his mind wouldn’t stop wandering. His mom homeschooled him after that, and he credited her with the success of his education: “My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me; and I felt I had something to live for, someone I must not disappoint.”
5. Ansel Adams was homeschooled at the age of 12 after his “wild laughter and undisguised contempt for the inept ramblings of his teachers” disrupted the classroom. His father took on his education from that point forward.
6. Robert Frost hated school so much he would get physically ill at the thought of going. He was homeschooled until his high school years.
7. Woodrow Wilson studied under his dad, one of the founders of the Southern Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS). He didn’t learn to read until he was about 12. He took a few classes at a school in Augusta, Georgia, to supplement his father’s teachings, and ended up spending a year at Davidson College before transferring to Princeton.
8. Mozart was educated by his dad as the Mozart family toured Europe from 1763-1766.
9. Laura Ingalls Wilder was homeschooled until her parents finally settled in De Smet in what was then Dakota Territory. She started teaching school herself when she was only 15 years old.
10. Louisa May Alcott studied mostly with her dad, but had a few lessons from family friends Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Can you imagine?
11. And we mustn't forget Miss Strawberry....famous and delightfully wonderful!
