House at the National Theatre, London
In the little town where we live in North Yorkshire there are lots – dozens, hundreds [don’t exaggerate…ed] of places you can have coffee. Shops, supermarkets, garden centres, farmer’s stores, pie […]
Tag Archives: city
Covent Garden Hotel, London
Most of the time we try to stay in interesting places – hotels, apartments, villas, chalets, even the odd B&B – but sometimes you just have to stay in nice […]
Annabel’s, Mayfair, London
Apparently around 2008 there was a bit of a world financial crisis [apparently also known as the Global Financial Crisis]. Banks failed, people lost money and confidence in the ability […]
Duck Soup, London
When we “discovered” 10 Greek Street it was a minor revelation. Good food at very affordable prices, walking in from the street without booking – that works if you get […]
Rooftop Restaurant, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon
The famous cathedral in Stratford – aka The Royal Shakespeare Company’s recently extended and reconfigured building – sits majestically at the side of the River Avon. It doesn’t quite have […]
Knead it!, Stratford-on-Avon
For those of a certain age, you might remember a series of advertisements on TV [we know, it wasn’t the BBC] about a man who loved his shaver so much […]
Café Concerto, York
After the chance find of Le Langhe in York last week, we find ourselves there again, this time on the train rather than chancing the very slow traffic. York was […]
Le Langhe, York
We’ve avoided York for quite a while now. Perhaps we over did it? It’s always bustling with tourists and the universities have grown and expanded so it’s always busy. Once […]
The Richard 1, Greenwich, London
Greenwich village in London [as opposed to NYC] languished as, if not so much a backwater, then a less than fashionable part of London. It wasn’t brilliantly connected and although […]
10 Greek Street London
In another in the series of the random, unresearched, let’s just pop in sort of place (so far successful) we walked in to 10 Greek Street for a pre-Ronnie Scott’s […]
sleep | eat | enjoy 