À La Verrière
Continuing the Great Post Covid Expedition To France we spend the night in Beaujolais. Travelling through France is like a circular tour of your best local off licence (or supermarket […]
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Osip, Bruton
We stayed At the chapel, a converted guess-what right in the middle of Bruton. Open all day [but not in the evening] for breakfast, brunch, lunch, afternoon tea, glass of […]
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 […]
The Angel at Hetton, North Yorkshire
Well, about a hundred years ago, when we were but young architects, we were designing spec housing. A meeting with a commercial director of Costain homes brought home the grizzly […]
Black Swan, Oldstead, North Yorkshire
Well we guess the Black Swan holds a number of records – Trip Advisor ‘Best Restaurant in the World’ and now No 4 in the same league table. Remarkable. BTW […]
Inver, Strathlachlan, Argyll
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 […]
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 […]
Craven Arms, Appletreewick, North Yorkshire
In our (hopefully) never ending series of [1] visits to pubs and [2] walks in Yorkshire, we set out to walk up Trollers Gill in Wharfedale. We’re meeting up with […]
The Lister Arms, Malham, North Yorkshire
When the weather is fine in November get your boots on quickly and get walking, before the weather notices and takes a turn for the worst. It can be glorious […]
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 […]
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