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Summer 2006

Camilla, Jeremy and Sheila came over for a barbeque. Much fun was had by all, especially when Rachel had a fight with a fish, Kiril incinerated said fish, and Camilla's pudding flattened itself. Much wine was drunk to lubricate such disasters. ...

Most Recent Entry: Sunday, June 11, 2006

Skiing in Austria, 2006

Kiril and I sported skis for the first time on the Kasberg in northern Austria, where we stayed in the village of Grünau. After two lessons, Kiril – already an adept at snowboarding – was almost a pro, leaving me trailing somewhat tentatively behi...

Most Recent Entry: Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Norfolk, February 2006

Kiril finally received his (very) long-awaited birthday present and we spent a weekend in Norfolk - also a chance for me to provide further proof that we do have countryside in the UK. Our hotel, Strattons in Swaffham, was everything we had anticipated...

Most Recent Entry: Saturday, February 11, 2006

Budapest, Christmas 2005

To Budapest for Christmas. High points of this trip were a visit to the glorious opera house on Christmas Day (La Boheme) and a happy few hours wallowing in hot spring baths at the modernist Gellert hotel. A snowy day in the old town on the Buda side o...

Most Recent Entry: Thursday, December 22, 2005

Australia 2005

Conveniently for us, my aunt Tacye and Kiril’s parents live within an hour and a half’s drive of each other. Tacye emerged from a paddock to feed us with belated birthday cake (though my first and only this year, so doubly or even triply welcome!) and ...

Most Recent Entry: Friday, December 02, 2005

Brussels, November 2005

Spent the weekend in Brussels for my birthday. Whilst the Grand Place is beautiful, there are some wonderful museums and good bars and restaurants, Brussels is far from my favourite city in Europe. Its role as a political capital seems to have crushed ...

Most Recent Entry: Friday, November 04, 2005

Rome 2005

Spent a week in Rome at an archaeological seminar, studying the Classical and prehistoric traditions of research within archaeology. The other participants were mostly from Scandinavia, plus the odd Swiss, Greek, Italian and Maltese. I had the great bl...

Most Recent Entry: Friday, October 14, 2005

Summer 2005

My mum, Elinor and I took part in a 5km race in Hyde Park just for women. I managed to finish in 22.57 minutes and 74rd place - not bad out of 20,500 women! Afterwards, a boozy picnic was in order... http://www.womenschallenge.co.uk/results2005/l...

Most Recent Entry: Saturday, September 10, 2005

Salzburg 2005

Kiril and I headed to Salzburg for five days to celebrate his birthday and meet his Australian cousin who was in Mozart's home town for a music summer school. It was wonderful to have a longer break than usual - time to potter around, relax and drink c...

Most Recent Entry: Thursday, July 14, 2005

Booze Cruise 2005

Kiril and I hopped across the channel with the car to load up with alcohol. We were almost thwarted, having failed to realise that the French are somewhat behind the Brits in terms of the sophistication of shop opening hours... That aside, the sophi...

Most Recent Entry: Saturday, July 02, 2005

Turkey 2005

No study visit to Turkey would be complete without a visit to Troy and its wooden horse(s now that Brad Pitt’s mighty beast is perched on the seashore at Cannakale). High point for Ms Croft was seeing Schliemann’s trenches (whatever one may think of hi...

Most Recent Entry: Monday, June 06, 2005

May Day 2005

Remind me never to organise a holiday for 13 people ever again... Only joking (well, almost) - this was a fantastic weekend and worth all the hard work of trying to organise this unruly bunch. After weeks of increasingly frantic email exchange, 13 of u...

Most Recent Entry: Saturday, April 30, 2005

Boston 2005

Took part in my first international conference, a meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) in Boston. The whole experience was somewhat surreal: we were staying in a vast hotel and I ended up with a vast room with the most enormous bed ...

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