TRAVEL
Since our time in Vienna was limited, we decided not to visit the art galleries in the Belvedere complex as DH was keen to see the war museum. So off we trekked on and on and on and after circling the army complex a few times finally found the entrance. Now it’s times like this that you notice how big a building is when you walk around it on foot.
I’m actually quite glad I don’t live in a place quite that big, can you imagine how long it would take to clean all the windows and sweep the paths?
HISTORY
King Henry certainly has dozens of mistresses. I did find further information in my research with quite graphic descriptions of why Henry would never have been able to consummate the marriage, but this is neither the time or the place!! It is a family blog after all.
Blanche is sent home to Aragon, only to be imprisoned by her own family in Olite. She is in line to inherit Navarre after her brother Carlos. She remains single and childless. Isn’t that so sad – Disneyland princesses were never treated this way.
AFRICA FACTS
Here are a few more pictures of what the schools managed to provide for their students. Many had computer centres despite the poverty in the surrounding shacklands. They were so innovative, holding hairdressing competitions, food sales, used clothing sales, growing garden produce – each bringing in a few pennies which all added up.
And they also gave spare food grown on the premises to the poorest in the community, even though they had so little themselves. It was sometimes difficult to stop myself from bursting into tears.
I will be sharing more of my experiences in the following weeks, and you can read about them too in more detail, in Truth, Lies and Propaganda
Till next time, take care.
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Thanks, Lucinda. Great post and very inspiring. I have visited Castle Howard (I’ve loved it since I first saw Brideshead Revisited) and remember one of the guides telling us that the staff could who carried the food and hot water from the kitchens had difficulty getting to where they were going before it became cold again. Not a job I envy them, for sure!
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Nor I. They had the same problem in Hampton Court and most of the other palaces as the kitchens were way away out of sight and out of mind.
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