Travel Sketches

Sketching, learning a new language and bicycling in Europe

For the past four years I have had the wonderful opportunity to travel in Europe on a bicycle with a wonderful new life partner.

Our now annual three month European bicycling lifestyle slows life down with frequent stops to sample the local coffee, tea, wines and beers as well as farm fresh veggies and local breads and cakes along the way. At our stops, I am increasingly confident in pulling out my sketchbook and capturing the moment. From time to time interested people will peek over my shoulder and sometimes even start a conversation. This opens the door for me to practice my emergent German.

Ginger tea and apple cake in Bergen, Holland
Collage of travelers waiting for the Eurostar train
Urban Sketching with the Alkmaar Group
A little nature journaling inspired by seeing fig trees in northern Germany!
Where I discovered what “Strauswirtschaft”was
A playful map of our wine adventure
We were lucky to hear an organ recital…Wir hatten das Glück, ein wunderschönes Orgelkonzert zu hören
Dinner at Hüselmanns in Lippstadt
Paderborn Markt, Paderborn market
A quiet respite in the corner of the walled garden at Beaulieu Abbey in England
Trying to capture Fordingbridge from inside The George pub