Now all the National Trust places we’ve been to have been lovely, but occasionally we come across one that’s truly special. Such is the case today, when we visit Winston Churchill’s family home, Chartwell. Nestled […]
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2019 Day 7 – Stourhead and Bunnies on Thames
It’s an utterly perfect morn, blue skies abound and we’re touched by the lightest of summer’s early kiss.Having missed out on Stourhead the day before, we rectify that this morning with a walk around the […]
2019 Day 6 – Farewell Truro, hello Devon?
The time has come, as it does each journey, to start the long trek towards the ferry crossing to France. Not before a birthday celebration for Himself, of course. With a lunch reservation at Spring […]
2019 Days 4 & 5 – Ankles & Glendurgan
Day 4 Another day, another task or two ticked off the list. This morning a very nice man pops in to steam clean our carpets. And what a glorious job he does of it. They […]
2019 Days 1 to 3 – Truro and Falmouth
Day 1 And just like that, another adventure begins. Not before, of course, the oh so very long trek from Melbourne to London. Blah. Come on future! It’s 2019 – where’s my teleportation app? Luckily, […]
2018 Day 20 – Kedleston Hall
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 […]
2018 Day 15 – Waddesdon Manor
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 […]
2018 Day 7 – The Jurassic Coast
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 […]
2017 Day Ninety Three
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 […]
2017 Day Ninety
We wake to a clear day – yay! And it’s my birthday, double yay! I’m so grateful it’s not raining. I’m not sure I have it in me, to be gracious trapped indoors on my […]
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