The last 24 hours has been rather wonderful. Blissed out at meeting the gorgeous Miss Felix, the Huddersfield Station cat, I shared my blog post about it with her* in a private message, thinking she […]
The last 24 hours has been rather wonderful. Blissed out at meeting the gorgeous Miss Felix, the Huddersfield Station cat, I shared my blog post about it with her* in a private message, thinking she […]
It seems that our travels have randomly developed a literary bent. Works for me! The world of books is most definitely one of my happy places. I spent most of my childhood walking around with […]
Kedleston Hall is a country estate just north of Derby, home to the Curzon family since the late 1200s. The Hall is the third incarnation of a house on these grounds. I’m not sure what […]
We’re in the utterly picturesque Stratford upon Avon, birthplace and resting place of William Shakespeare. There’s also a country and western music festival in town – consequently, there’s a 50/50 chance of running into someone […]
You’ve heard the phrase “go big or go home”? I’m sure it was the mantra of Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild who built the utterly magnificent Waddesdon Manor in the 1870s. Yesterday we had a little […]
We visited Oxford last year – looking back at that post, I’m surprised at what we achieved in a day. Oops. Probably pushed Chris a wee bit hard there. I can get a little engerzier […]
We ratchet the pace back a little with a lazy lunch by the water, at “Shaun Dickens at The Boathouse”, which proves a gastromonic delight. I should have been much more diligent about taking photos, […]
Our journey east takes us via the Jurassic Coast which stretches approximately 150 km along England’s southern shoreline. Listed as a World Heritage site in 2001, it spans 185 million years of geological history across […]
They say that no good deed goes unpunished. And boy am I paying for yesterday’s little treat of slacking off. A marathon seven hour session of packing and final motorhome chores. I’m well over it […]
And just for a change of pace (she said in jest) it pours. Not just any rain, but buckets of it. All the more reason to stay in bed, reading Black Rabbit Hall, my novel […]