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Book Review: Meet Me in Monaco by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb

Trish Burgess Posted on07/09/201908/09/2019 Book reviews, France, Meet Me in Monaco 7 Comments
Meet Me in Monaco book

An American actress and a European prince. The world’s media going crazy for a fairytale romance featuring Hollywood and royalty. Sound familiar? We’ve just experienced the frenzy around the marriage of Meghan Markle and Prince

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Duke House, a beautiful bolthole in the centre of Cambridge

Trish Burgess Posted on01/05/201902/05/2019 B&B in Cambridge, Cambridge 8 Comments
Duke House, Cambridge, drawing room

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 and

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St Martins Lane: a luxury boutique hotel in Covent Garden

Trish Burgess Posted on26/03/201901/05/2019 hotels in London, London, luxury hotels, St Martins Lane 11 Comments
St Martins Lane hotel bedroom lighting blue

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 social

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Kinky Boots are made for touring.

Trish Burgess Posted on12/11/201812/11/2018 Kinky Boots UK tour, Musical 3 Comments
Callum Francis as Lola pluus Angels in Kinky Boots

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 5

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Five Acre Barn packs a Suffolk punch

Trish Burgess Posted on06/11/201813/11/2018 B&B, Five Acre Barn, places to stay in Suffolk, Suffolk 6 Comments
Ceramics on shelf of Five Acre Barn

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 100

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24 Stops Rehberger-Weg: 5km walking route between Switzerland and Germany

Trish Burgess Posted on18/10/201825/01/2019 Basel, Germany, Switzerland, things to do in Basel, Weil am Rhein 15 Comments
binoculars on 24 stops rehberger weg

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 the

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Tim Peake’s spacecraft at Peterborough Cathedral

Trish Burgess Posted on17/09/201831/10/2018 Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Soyuz, Tim Peake 16 Comments
Tim Peake's soyuz spacecraft in 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 magnificent

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Old Town Chambers, luxury serviced apartments in Edinburgh

Trish Burgess Posted on24/08/201830/08/2018 Edinburgh, luxury apartments in Edinburgh, Old Town Chambers, Scotland, where to stay in Edinburgh 13 Comments
Old Town Chambers interior signature apartment

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 station

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