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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...

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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...

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Mum’s gone to Switzerland: Lucerne

Trish Burgess Posted on02/11/201819/01/2019 Lucerne, Luzern, Switzerland, Things to do in Lucerne 30 Comments
View of Lucerne from the city walls

The third leg of our Switzerland rail trip was Lucerne (Luzern). It’s a picture postcard city, perched on the edge of the Vierwaldstättersee or, for we English speakers, Lake Lucerne. I had imagined a...

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Mum’s gone to Switzerland: Bern

Trish Burgess Posted on23/10/201825/01/2019 A day in Bern, Bern, Switzerland 9 Comments

We fell in love with teddy bears in the Toy World Museum in Basel but came face to face with the real thing on our next stop in Switzerland: Bern. Brown bears have been...

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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...

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Mum’s gone to Switzerland: Basel

Trish Burgess Posted on09/10/201825/01/2019 Basel, city break in Basel, Switzerland, things to do in Basel 29 Comments
Old Town of Basel and river Rhine

As a holiday destination, Switzerland brings to mind hiking in the mountains or walking by lakes. It doesn’t necessarily suggest city breaks. But it proved to be a wonderful country for city lovers. Dougie and...

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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...

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Diary of a long weekend at the Edinburgh Fringe – Day Four

Trish Burgess Posted on11/09/201831/10/2018 Edinburgh, Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh Tattoo, Scotland 4 Comments

A Tale of Two Cities. When Dickens wrote this book he was referring to London and Paris during the French Revolution. But Edinburgh could claim this term as it’s very much a city split...

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