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 […]
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The Tetley, Leeds
The papers are full of the joys of leaving London and moving north. Young people are finally seeing the benefits of cheaper housing, cheaper beer (though not restaurants unless you […]
Hill House, Helensburgh
Britain (and America) is permanently in love with Georgian architecture. It seemingly evokes a period in which we would all like to live. Beautiful buildings, fabulous fashions, all simple and […]
Notting Hill Carnival, London
Well, it started in 1959 apparently. In St Pancras Town Hall, of all places although, after sixty years this is the 53rd Carnival? Claudia Jones started it in 1959 to […]
Venice Biennale 2019
Every couple of years Venice hosts the art festival that is the Biennale. It’s all very, well, arty. A chance for (1) someone to feel important curating the exhibition and […]
The Café at Mount Grace Priory, North Yorkshire
There’s a little almost derelict Priory near Osmotherley in North Yorkshire. It’s the ruin of a 14th Century Carthusian order dissolved, like many others, by Henry VIII when he set […]
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 […]
Design Museum, London
Actually we didn’t eat here. There is a restaurant but it was closed – and there are several mixed reviews about Parabola, the in house restaurant run by Rowley Leigh. He […]
Kanana and Shinde Camps Botswana
Botswana’s tourism model is simple. High value, low volume. In other words, if we charge enough, we restrict the number of people who can visit. The more the prices go […]
Ardardan Estate, Argyll
As you head west from Glasgow along the A82 towards Loch Lomond you pass from Dumbartonshire into the highly sought-after “Argyll” postcode. Well, that’s a double-edged sword. Once you get […]
