There is much to recommend a jaunt to Bath. This is a sentiment that has been long shared. ‘The advantages of Bath to the young and pretty are generally understood”- so claims one of Bath’s most famous residents in her novel Emma. While we profess to be neither that young, or pretty- Bath was where […]
Day trips London
Take my advice. You don’t need to book a coach tour. You don’t need to deal with other people with fat cameras and guides toting umbrellas with sunflowers stuck to the top. It’s only an hour on the train from Waterloo to Windsor and Eton Riverside. You can buy the tickets from the machine, or […]
If we were to cleave the world into two, you might divide us in this way. There are the list makers. And there are those who are not. If you are not, we might as well part company now. You of your spontaneous enthusiasm. With your fly by the seat of your pants vim and […]
Punting. Queen’s College. The Mathematical Bridge. The Bridge of Sighs. And one of the original homes of the famed chelsea bun. There are plenty of reasons to take a jaunt up to Cambridge. (Even without the additional ‘free gift with purchase’ of a family designed scavenger hunt to track down the labs where your grandfather […]
I do like to be beside the seaside. Call me Australian. Call me a water sign. Call me anything you like, but if it goes more than a month and The Hungry One and I haven’t had some contact with an ocean, we go a little stir crazy. I heard a rumour there was sand […]