The Sugar Boat, Helensbugh
So, we’re in a heatwave. Likely to be the hottest EVER! Met Office issues first ever Red Heat Warning. Might be 40deg, although such hyperbole is rarely realised and it’s […]
So, we’re in a heatwave. Likely to be the hottest EVER! Met Office issues first ever Red Heat Warning. Might be 40deg, although such hyperbole is rarely realised and it’s […]
It’s been a funny old few months with this lockdown thingy (absolutely essential lockdown thingy…Ed) and normal restaurant appreciation has been postponed. Great invention by pubs, cafés and restaurants to […]
Often promised but very nearly never realised. Our last attempt to visit this fish heaven saw The Shack closed for a new arrival. Our alternative choice wasn’t worth recording so […]
The seaside towns along the Yorkshire coast divide, almost, neatly into two types. Staithes, Runswick Bay, Sandsend and Robin Hood’s Bay are fashionable, charming reminders of times gone by when […]
Your view out across the water is interrupted by a rather mean looking whirlpool in the middle of the sea – the Corryvreckan no less. We’ve been through it a […]
We’d hoped to sail the 36Nm from Vis to Lastovo but the wind was frustratingly against us. We could have happily tacked all day but, with a storm coming, we […]
Day one sees the motley crew set sail in mid afternoon, the first two arrivals having done all the provisioning bar the water and the beer. It’s all a bit […]
Our visits to Vis town, on the island of Vis, have usually seen us eating in the paradise garden at Villa Kaliopa, located at the Kut end of the bay. […]
It’s been a bit of an Italian summer – not the temperatures up in Yorkshire – but the language training in the Veneto and Torcello. Compared with last summer – […]
A funny sort of a day. It’s Day 2 of the new PM, that dastardly figure Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, generally rumoured to be an habitual liar and someone […]