Posts I’m back from Spain, France and Singapore with a bump… ready to get into marking student assignments solidly for two weeks. I had a wonderful time – learning, eating, talking, laughing, visiting, cycling, flying, shopping and generally saying “oh wow!”. Many, many thanks to the Spanish Ministry of Culture for inviting me and to all the wonderfully clever, interesting and accommodating folk that I met on the way.
I hope to provide more reflection on the conference and some of the places I visited, but it will need to wait.
The minifigs enjoyed themselves too. Each time I travel, my sons give me a couple of Lego minifigs to photograph in interesting places. You can see their previous travels around Australia, New Zealand, the United States, the Netherlands and in London here in this Flickr set, Minifigs go travelling . They are not the only minifig world travellers – Jo-Jo and Frikke from Denmark also saw the world – on their own….
The chef inspected croissants at Charles De Gaulle airport as we passed through Paris, so that by the time we reached Gijon in Northern Spain he had them almost perfected:
The minifigs came with us on our “Gaudi Day” in Barcelona, as we explored the architect’s apartment block, La Pedrera and what is now a public park, Parc Guell:
The minfigs visited the Louvre in Paris:
They had great fun in the retrospective of video games over the last 30 years, Museogames, held at the Musee des arts et metiers in Paris:
I am not sure that they enjoyed almost being eaten in Singapore on the way home, but they should be used to it because it also happened two years before.
What a wonderful family tradition. I look forward to hearing about the conference but this post is heart-warming