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 […]
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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 […]
2017 Day Eighty Five
We awake to rural scenes, having stayed overnight in the heart of story book pretty farmland. It’s rained most of the night and there are solemn predictions about it settling in for the week. *Sigh*. […]
2017 Day Eighty Four
In the never ending fridge saga, of which I am heartily sick, we trek cross country to yet another specialist. Having revisited the original gas service centre and addressed all possible gas related issues, we’re […]
2017 Day Eighty Two
When they said three days of rain, they weren’t kidding: the morning greets us with a stubborn drizzle that progressively worsens. We had great plans to visit Salisbury but our arch enemy, parking, thwarts us. […]
2017 Day Seventy Seven
There is a bonus to meandering without direction, even though it has been known to strike terror in the heart of a plan loving Virgo such as moi. Every so often, you come across an […]
2017 Day Seventy Six
And just like that, the weather gods decide that summer is done. To celebrate their decision, they’ve sent us a 15 degree, properly rainy day. It makes for a later start, but it will take […]
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