I always think of myself as a Geordie, hailing from Newcastle upon Tyne, even though I haven’t lived there since I was 18. Husband, Dougie, is an Edinburgh man, despite leaving home at the...
A taste of the estuary at Lympstone Manor
The end of an era is fast-approaching. Rory now has a degree in politics from Exeter University and our three years of visiting him will end next month with his graduation ceremony. I’m not...
The perfect summer evening at Sergi’s Tapas Bar, Spalding
When we were visiting Seville last autumn, I would never have imagined that a few months later we would be tucking into tasty tapas back home in our small Lincolnshire town of Spalding. Karl...
Spending a day at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
As we drove towards Portsmouth harbour I could see the distinctive shape of the Spinnaker Tower against the sharp blue of the sky. This puzzled me. “I thought that tower was in Plymouth,” I...
Unlocking the secrets of Bletchley Park
Dougie earned lots of brownie points for booking a superb hotel, the Aviator in Farnborough, Hampshire, for our last-minute Easter break. But this wasn’t the end of his brilliant ideas. In an effort to escape the traffic...
Chocks away! A perfect weekend at the Aviator Hotel, Farnborough
You know you’ve joined the jet-set when you spot a distinguished, uniformed chap at the reception desk who looks remarkably like Sully, the heroic pilot who saved his passengers by gliding his plane onto the Hudson...
Review of The Excursionist by J.D. Sumner
Newly single Jack Kavanagh….sorry, Kaganagh…..longs to visit one hundred countries and join the esteemed Travelers’ Century Club. To tick off his last three countries he books a trip to the Coronation Islands, despite travel...
A Bank Holiday weekend with a Trespass jacket
What better way to test a new jacket than to take it away on a typical British Bank Holiday weekend. There’s bound to be a wide variety of weather conditions to put it through its...