Karen's Craft Odyssey

Highlight of the day was ‘As You Like It’ at the Globe Theater:

Our seats were at the side of the stage, and some of the action was obscured by the pillars on the stage, but the play was fantastic!!  The actors did a great job of communicating the humor of the play.  And the [...]

We started off the day with great intentions to see many new things.  In the end, we got to three of them.
First off the rank, was the Globe Theatre:

The museum was full of school boys, all dutifully filling out some worksheet about Shakespeare their teachers had given them.  This made it difficult for normal people [...]

We’ve finally left Canterbury, and are in London tonight.  The last couple of weeks (since my last post) have gone quickly.  During the week we were busy both with work and with arranging our travels.  We shipped two suitcases of accumulated STUFF back to Australia and bought two new suitcases for the rest of our [...]

I spent this one knitting!
Friday and Saturday I went to the iKnit Weekender in London.  It was held at the Royal Horticultural Halls, and there were plenty of vendors:

Yes, I bought plenty of goodies:

But the highlight was the classes.  I started out with Twined Knitting [...]

Left bright and early Friday morning to catch the Eurostar to Paris.  What a way to travel! 2 hours Ashford to Paris.  We arrived just after 10am Paris time.

First stop – La Defense (to you purists, no I’m not going to even try to get the accents right!).  Why La Defense?  Because that’s where our [...]