The Olive Tree, Bath
Bath. It really is splendid. The miles of elegant stone terraces are for Bath what Persimmon is doing everywhere else. Well, that’s a touch unkind; Bath saw a great expansion […]
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Drunken Duck Inn, Barngates
Another revisit. This time to our old favourite, the Drunken Duck between Windermere and Coniston. Oh how we’ve missed you. After a typical glorious Yorkshire summer, over here in the […]
Hope Street Hotel
Gradually, and with a good deal of hesitancy, life slowly thinks about what it will be like when things return to normal – whatever that might be. It’s the first […]
Hotel des Arts, Saigon, Vietnam
Now for something completely different, as Monty Python used to say. Remember them? Saigon (to the people of the south – Ho Chi Minh to the northerners) is vibrant. Very […]
Crinan Hotel, Crinan, Argyll
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 […]
Locanda Cipriani, Torcello
We’re on an Italian refresher course (well, one of us is) cycling around the Veneto to the west of Venice. We’ve done this cycling thing before, down the Danube from […]
Maison Polanka, Siem Reap, Cambodia
We arrived at Maison Polanka after three weeks travelling – flying, driving, sailing – around Vietnam and Cambodia. We moved every couple of days, the longest being the sail up […]
Hotel Metropole Hanoi
Friday 16th November 2018. Vietnam win 2-0 against Malaysia in the ASEAN Football Group A match. Malaysia fans are unimpressed. Vietnam handed out a tactical masterclass as they defeated Malaysia […]
Bitter End Yacht Club, BVIs
Once upon a time we arranged the “last great family holiday”. You know, when your children have [almost] grown up, are away working or at university and you want to […]
Hotel Claris, Barcelona
We seem to have been “resting” over the autumn and winter, with a lack of posts. Sorry. So, in a burst of catching up here’s a blast from the past. […]
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