Nervous Nellie Goes To France

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Posted by Happy Homemaker UK<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Last weekend my husband and I took the Channel Tunnel ('Chunnel') train from London to Paris to celebrate his birthday. I have always been a Little Nervous Nellie (and Claustrophobic Claudia) about being in a tube underwater - just doesn't seem natural. 246 feet deep, to be exact.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The undersea train line opened in 1994, although formal discussions began as early as 1802. Whereas the English tunnelling machines were given snoozy alphanumeric names, the French boring machines had lovely names such as Brigitte, Virginie, and Pascaline. Ooh, that sounds so pretty and French!<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtHPFznFR8xQhXvfAV2Zt63FDr86rkE9Z4aYcaSDnD_XlkO3uduDgpq8CPTBhZUt98teM4j83nJ3kCvHCb4fnbZBcWHz9Lvo-qonvdVoPmBzTnbIQ4-UCwz7ofNmjt-O1lQnEfx317kTU/s1600/DSCN0159-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtHPFznFR8xQhXvfAV2Zt63FDr86rkE9Z4aYcaSDnD_XlkO3uduDgpq8CPTBhZUt98teM4j83nJ3kCvHCb4fnbZBcWHz9Lvo-qonvdVoPmBzTnbIQ4-UCwz7ofNmjt-O1lQnEfx317kTU/s400/DSCN0159-1.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our Eurostar Train in the Gare du Nord Intl Station (Paris)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helevetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />I am happy to report there are no faults on the English Channel seafloor, and it was ideal to bore into the strong chalky marl (think White Cliffs of Dover). Although a huge engineering feat, the construction of the tunnel appears to be void of colorful stories.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Although I turned some heads showing up in my big yellow life jacket and pudgy arm floaties over my cute repurposed Goodwill outfit, I never heard any safety talks including the whereabouts of my nearest lifeboat or exit.<br /><br />I 'sleuthed' that fire is the biggest danger. There have been a few closures in the tunnel due to fires on the freight trains, thankfully without injuries. And conveniently I realized those scuba tanks I was wearing could double as my firefighter oxygen get-up.<br /><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFCnh6LjuqJGiFor9UcpcEes7A-1uVMqyYQDTupB3TS2N5QXMMgQOcvzNFcxcDXMtwmiDH5i3VdeJRb6yCLynBN3FvtQKOOGHAVJRemTc2P-AfonTBg0aR6ojY4PDSMTGwyNeQYxt60LU/s1600/DSCN0163-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFCnh6LjuqJGiFor9UcpcEes7A-1uVMqyYQDTupB3TS2N5QXMMgQOcvzNFcxcDXMtwmiDH5i3VdeJRb6yCLynBN3FvtQKOOGHAVJRemTc2P-AfonTBg0aR6ojY4PDSMTGwyNeQYxt60LU/s400/DSCN0163-1.JPG" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View Inside Train</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If I have an urge to ride more undersea trains, I could head over to the Seikan Tunnel in Japan or wait for the opening of the Marmaray Tunnel in Turkey. It is at least four years behind schedule largely due to the discovery of a Byzantine era archaeological find and to complications of building on a fault line underwater (Nervous Nellie skips that one for sure).</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><b><br /></b></span></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBYK0O_nUqIYzjmJVkKbCc6XBYqHchaHhW8bBdAe9By3wP2ahzCQfGksTAsJluCMc9JuSRlUf2bS70pdTd40gN7ZABRewJ4nOezNIqGmN6WB3Qc3n5BXNa_Kr1RogXS6o0IOVPOxY-ohE/s1600/DSCN0162-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBYK0O_nUqIYzjmJVkKbCc6XBYqHchaHhW8bBdAe9By3wP2ahzCQfGksTAsJluCMc9JuSRlUf2bS70pdTd40gN7ZABRewJ4nOezNIqGmN6WB3Qc3n5BXNa_Kr1RogXS6o0IOVPOxY-ohE/s400/DSCN0162-1.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View From Train Window (France)</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I think our train trip took about 2 hours, with only 20 minutes in the actual undersea tunnel. Cleverly, they distracted me first by pouring (free) wine before we got to the tunnel, and then brought my yummy meal and dessert just before going into the dark underground. And because we went through many short land tunnels along the way, it took a while to realize we were actually in THE tunnel - so I didn't even have time to locate my paper bag to breathe into. </div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Getting off the train in my snorkeling flippers was a little tricky, though. I know, I am a dreamy travelmate : )</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Source: Wikipedia.org</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">[You're Invited! If you enjoyed this post, please consider following: www.HappyHomemakerUK.blogspot.com ] </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">XO </div><div style="text-align: left;">Laura (Nellie & Claudia)</div>

Nervous Nellie Goes To France

Posted by Happy Homemaker UK Last weekend my husband and I took the Channel Tunnel ('Chunnel') train from London to Paris to celebra...

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Day Trip: The Roald Dahl Museum

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Posted by Happy Homemaker UK<br /><br />'<b>A life is made up of a great number of small incidents and a small number of great ones</b>'    -Roald Dahl<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgdxaexBtJsMCBYyMGcCecJ-ha7j3bD9PmPbDB8z49poskgw5YdQlT5BwjytnfAgPczaMIeZq1eD-mH-MtbcejtAy9Mz8Xa2p6bUbkyabFMQzimYJKRMz9Yv3ShCvWLS-i8WpfuEEtukY/s1600/DSCN0059-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgdxaexBtJsMCBYyMGcCecJ-ha7j3bD9PmPbDB8z49poskgw5YdQlT5BwjytnfAgPczaMIeZq1eD-mH-MtbcejtAy9Mz8Xa2p6bUbkyabFMQzimYJKRMz9Yv3ShCvWLS-i8WpfuEEtukY/s200/DSCN0059-1.JPG" width="133" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In an effort to make books 'come alive' for our kids, we will attempt to visit places with literary significance. Fortunately living here will make that job easier : )</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As fans of his work, we took a day trip to The Roald Dahl Museum in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire. Roald Dahl was the author of childhood classics such as <i>Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr Fox, James and The Giant Peach, </i>and <i>Matilda. </i>He died in 1990.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzTPkiOXT4OjETzT4Sil9uOZheF2mRISpktGt2Lxqlzkab5kUxdE17QwLnTjVtzeFdxW2wG16KwcjpGubkFfGr4i5g2JC1hDmS9n37PCqwURiCvoMO-Rc1vr93HnRnPmGj8rM3pPT3MG8/s1600/DSCN0082-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzTPkiOXT4OjETzT4Sil9uOZheF2mRISpktGt2Lxqlzkab5kUxdE17QwLnTjVtzeFdxW2wG16KwcjpGubkFfGr4i5g2JC1hDmS9n37PCqwURiCvoMO-Rc1vr93HnRnPmGj8rM3pPT3MG8/s400/DSCN0082-1.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The unforgettable children's musical movie <i>Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory</i> was filmed in Munich, West Germany in 1970. Interestingly, Quaker Oats Company provided big funding for the film as a platform for their new chocolate candy, <i>Wonka Bar.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You'll notice that the exact title of the book, <i>Charlie and The Chocolate Factory,</i> was not used for the movie <i>Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory </i>to better promote the candy tie-in. Mr Dahl disapproved of the heavy focus on Willy Wonka and less on Charlie, so he did not allow for the filming of the sequel <i>Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to Wikipedia, that unforgettable Chocolate Room was a two foot deep river and waterfall created by adding chocolate ice cream mix to 150,000 gallons of water which eventually created a foul odor that permeated the entire soundstage. Many of the floral props were edible.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now back to the museum. The museum took approximately two hours to tour. The focus was on Roald Dahl's life and how to get those creative juices flowing for aspiring young (and old) writers. When we entered the museum, the kids were given little notebooks to jot down creative ideas for writing a story. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4BblKHHJXIsEz189rY5hGLs3jhiAxijoOBCkuHs3mX1DMd6N2GcxGjrYi7VJJm1E0R4mP4mCCI0vjbk0pmB7VBiRBqZcQaR5_QeI5dZ62tJ0U9lPgjuWlzM_utyNDzagJG-LFQeJN2AE/s1600/DSCN0090-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4BblKHHJXIsEz189rY5hGLs3jhiAxijoOBCkuHs3mX1DMd6N2GcxGjrYi7VJJm1E0R4mP4mCCI0vjbk0pmB7VBiRBqZcQaR5_QeI5dZ62tJ0U9lPgjuWlzM_utyNDzagJG-LFQeJN2AE/s400/DSCN0090-1.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">There were drawing stations, dress up costumes, dictionaries, and magnetic areas to put random words together. It was loads of fun.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNeii5P-0-j8KgxUoIjVCzuCtVfcvd9z-zGbmo-UqGS7daxhR0KrwA9gm7Osf8xMLV8_bX9aE78h_NyLELSxgfPUrRh07iqS-ATjkZXIVgqnxaclqYpS8u732xTZgXO69q0UPVpVmPdpA/s1600/DSCN0093-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNeii5P-0-j8KgxUoIjVCzuCtVfcvd9z-zGbmo-UqGS7daxhR0KrwA9gm7Osf8xMLV8_bX9aE78h_NyLELSxgfPUrRh07iqS-ATjkZXIVgqnxaclqYpS8u732xTZgXO69q0UPVpVmPdpA/s400/DSCN0093-1.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">You can't go to this museum without some candy, right? </div><div style="text-align: center;">And a darling museum cafe too.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-rrH3jodKpOoV9ypeTs6Yr23GWGZ7UKjWuaAlDag7V9mpMPaHzRAUvUfGdFoPZ2gPpzj8zQeGhgax_RCk2QDK4n6SZquqt-v-fdjraUpKXl2Wo7nF0EnGEl-mlZxYGTtuUgju8et8BKs/s1600/DSCN0118-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-rrH3jodKpOoV9ypeTs6Yr23GWGZ7UKjWuaAlDag7V9mpMPaHzRAUvUfGdFoPZ2gPpzj8zQeGhgax_RCk2QDK4n6SZquqt-v-fdjraUpKXl2Wo7nF0EnGEl-mlZxYGTtuUgju8et8BKs/s400/DSCN0118-1.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Of course the kids had to try </div><div style="text-align: center;">the 'whizzpopper' and 'fizzy lifting' drinks!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I just finished reading Roald Dahl's fascinating autobiographies, <i>Boy </i>and <i>Going Solo</i>, which recounted his full life in boarding schools, making trips to the candy store, being a taster for Cadbury's Chocolate, working for Shell Company in Africa, and flying for the Royal Air Force in WWII. I always wonder about the life of such unique creative minds.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Click <a href="http://www.roalddahlmuseum.org/">here</a> to see the museum website</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">XO</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Laura</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Day Trip: The Roald Dahl Museum

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