If you’ve been reading my blogs lately, you’ll realise I’m starting to enjoy walking. It no longer feels like a trial, to be endured until a coffee shop is reached. Maybe it’s an age...
What’s it like inside a nuclear bunker?
Those of us of a certain age will remember only too well the pervading threat of nuclear war during the 1960s and 70s and its gradual demise during the 1980s. The collapse of the...
Damian Wawrzyniak brings House of Feasts to Peterborough
Welcome to the House of Feasts – a restaurant in the village of Eye Green on the outskirts of Peterborough. Chef Consultant Damian Wawrzyniak has transformed the village pub into a beautifully stylish establishment...
Graduation road trip: Blackaddie Country House Hotel
When I think of our previous visit to Dumfries and Galloway last summer, what sticks in my memory is the food. Dougie and I were fortunate to enjoy excellent cuisine at all four of...
Graduation road trip: Alloway, Robert Burns’ birthplace
It was hard to say goodbye to Shingle Lodge in Knockinaam. It had been our idyllic hideaway on the western coast of Scotland but we were looking forward to moving on, spending a night...
Graduation road trip: walk from Knockinaam to Portpatrick
“It’s a moderate walk and should take us an hour and a half,” Dougie announced to me, as I was happily scoffing toast and lounging about in our gorgeous holiday home, Shingle Lodge....
Graduation road trip: Shingle Lodge at Knockinaam Lodge hotel
“We rumbled slowly into a land of little wooded glens and then to a great wide moorland place, gleaming with lochs, with high blue hills showing northwards.” John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps. Buchan’s thrilling novel,...
Graduation road trip: Exeter
Let me start by offering a piece of advice. If your child is in their final year at university, find out the graduation dates and book yourself a hotel room for the whole week....