Salts Mill Diner, Saltaire, West Yorkshire
The days of the paternalistic approach to looking after your workers has, apparently, long gone. To be fair, for many employers in the industrial and post-industrial period, it had as […]
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Riley’s Fish Shack, Tynemouth
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 […]
Bluebell, Kettlewell
If you look at sheep grazing in the Yorkshire Dales it’s sometimes difficult to tell the difference between the sheep and lumps of whitish limestone outcrops, both dotted haphazardly across […]
Mademoiselles, Whitby
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 […]
The Coverbridge Inn, Wensleydale
There’s a very old walking in club in West Yorkshire that seems to love walking in the depths of winter, in the Yorkshire Dales. Members are all of a certain […]
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 […]
Millgate House, Richmond, North Yorkshire
Hiding in plain sight. Sometimes somewhere is so obvious, so familiar that it gets overlooked. Especially when it’s on your doorstep. Welcome to Millgate House in Richmond, North Yorkshire. It’s […]
Augusta Insula, Zaklopatica, Lastovo, Croatia
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 […]
Konoba Lola, Vis, Croatia
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. […]
Murano, London
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 – […]
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