Holbeck Ghyll, Windermere, Lake District
Remember the Queen’s Silver Jubilee weekend in 2012? She and Phil have to put up with a lot, travelling everywhere, always having to appear happy and cheerful no matter what […]
Category Archives: Europe
Real Meals Deli, Saltburn-by-Sea
It’s always interesting to see how the administrative boundaries often reflect the geographical features of an area. The Borough of Redcar and Cleveland might have a long coastal stretch and be […]
Fountains Abbey Visitor Centre, North Yorkshire
Everything seems to be Henry VIIIth related at the moment, with the BBC production of Wolf Hall receiving rave reviews, and all of the places used for filming brushing up […]
The Pheasant Inn, Harome, North Yorkshire
We’ve been going to the Star at Harome for well over forty years now in its various guises. It’s been good, bad, good, average and [hopefully] good or very good […]
One Devonshire Gardens, Glasgow
Firstly, it’s not to be confused with the Devonshire group of excellent hotels and pubs [think Devonshire Arms at Bolton Abbey – about which more later]. One Devonshire Gardens – […]
Waterside Inn, Bray
We often wondered why on earth there were two [out of England’s four] 3* Michelin restaurants in Bray – a little village on the Thames? Well, now we’ve been we […]
Cod and Lobster, Staithes, North Yorkshire
A day of beautiful sunshine and clear blue sky; the air crisp and the visibility excellent – you can see the ships on the north sea in the distance as […]
Sa Qua Na, Honfleur
The north coast of Brittany and Normandy has a quite unique character, redolent of the great days of seaside holidays from the Victorian period [in England] when villas were built […]
The Star at Harome, North Yorkshire
If you’re a bit anorakish [is that a word…ed?] then you can go round looking at roof tiles and trying to spot what happened in the evolution of buildings. Many […]
Gaspard de la Nuit, Paris
France has been in the news a bit recently so it reminded us of a couple of small excellent restaurants. We like the Marais, that small, neat, discreet area of Paris […]
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