I remember my first overnight stay in Cambridge in 1981. I was lying in a small single bed in a hotel room near the river Cam, staring at the ceiling, listening to my mum...
St Martins Lane: a luxury boutique hotel in Covent Garden
What’s the first thing you do when you enter your hotel room? Bounce on the edge of the bed? Check out the mini-bar? Eat the complimentary biscuits? If you’re a blogger or you’re into...
Kinky Boots are made for touring.
I was given complimentary tickets to see Kinky Boots on tour and chose to see the show at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle upon Tyne. Here’s my review of the production. …………………………………………………………………………………. In Week...
Five Acre Barn packs a Suffolk punch
There’s nothing better than having your accommodation choice approved by national newspapers. So I’m feeling more than a little smug that the B&B we recently stayed in has just been placed in the Top...
24 Stops Rehberger-Weg: 5km walking route between Switzerland and Germany
This was supposed to be a city-based holiday. We planned to explore Basel, Bern and Lucerne to check out the culture, art and history of these three Swiss cities. But somehow the lure of...
Tim Peake’s spacecraft at Peterborough Cathedral
It’s a surreal moment. I’m looking at Soyuz TMA-19M, the spacecraft used by Tim Peake to descend to earth from the International Space Station in June 2016. To see it in Cambridgeshire, in the...
Old Town Chambers, luxury serviced apartments in Edinburgh
The luxury serviced apartments of Old Town Chambers are located just a short distance from Edinburgh Waverley Station. If you look carefully, you can see them as you emerge from the depths of the...
Gin, cake and a new hat. A weekend at The Hoste, Burnham Market, Norfolk.
Dougie and I don’t usually make a big fuss about our wedding anniversary. We’re lucky if we manage a card swap and a steak dinner. Which is why I was surprised when, two days...