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Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire, Heavenly Wales
So I’ll pick up from where I left off in the last post, from Tywyn we headed south, towards Aberystwyth. We crossed the Dyfi Estuary and spent the day at Ynys Hir an RSPB nature reserve. Fans of the...
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Batsford Arboretum; Trees, Bees and Grandeur
Batsford Arboretum is hidden up a lane off the ancient {yet still a main road} roman Fosse Way an Moreton in Marsh. This pretty Cotswold market town is not far from Stratford upon Avon and Oxford...
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Lincoln, Just Wow!
Lincoln is an attractive Cathedral city in the eastern midlands of England. We found ourselves over there at the weekend on our drive back up north. Always wanting to visit new places, this turned out...
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Overland Istanbul to Cairo. Part 1: Istanbul
In January 2008 we embarked on a grand adventure around the globe, a trip that would see us to far off lands and the exotic places I dreamed of. In any trip you have to begin somewhere, we chose...
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Baking {out of my comfort zone} at Malham Show
Sometimes you have to step out of your comfort zone to experience new, exciting things. I received a tweet a fortnight ago asking if I would like to do a baking demonstration at one of the...
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Beautiful Birds of Prey {via a photography workshop
I’ve always been fascinated by birds of prey, the predators of the avian world. The thrill of seeing a sparrowhawk dart across the garden or a kestrel hovering over the fields when I was younger left...
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A few hours in Cologne. The Adventure has begun!
On Thursday 10th October we departed London St Pancras on the Eurostar bound for Brussels. The aim of this adventure is to travel from the UK to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam entirely by train. This was...
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Wonderful Warsaw, a couple of days in Poland.
On the Jan Kiepura Sleeper Train from Cologne to Warsaw, I had just drifted off in our cabin when there was a knock on the door. The train had pulled into a station somewhere in deepest Germany and we...
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24 hours in Vilnius, Lithuania
After a lovely couple of days exploring Warsaw we had a fiendishly early start to make our way to the capital of Lithuania, Vilnius. It also saw the unravelling of my plan to get all the way from the...
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Cheat Almond Pastries
These simple pastries are shamelessly inspired by Jésuite Amandes, a triangular puff pastry filled with frangipane, that’s shaped like a Jesuit three-cornered hat. I devoured a number of them on a...
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Kew Gardens in Autumn
Kew Gardens in Autumn The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew are a blissful, verdant escape from hectic London. The majestic trees and stunning Victorian hot houses are a heavenly experience as the year...
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The Poppies at the Tower of London
The Poppies at the Tower of London Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red 888,246 ceramic poppies, one for every British military fatality in World War I. When you first see the sea of red blooms you are...
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Bruges in the Rain
Bruges in the Rain, Belgium. Board the Eurostar at St Pancras, London and in less than four hours you can be wandering the picture-perfect streets of Bruges. It’s a simple platform change at Brussels:...
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Ghent: Alterpieces, Dragons and Veggie Burgers
Ghent Around a thousand years ago Ghent was the second largest city in Europe, second only to Paris. Its wealth built on textiles. It thrived for centuries until it rebelled against Charles V, Holy...
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Antwerp, all sorts of Art!
Antwerp Antwerp is Belgium’s second largest city, its large port has meant it has been a wealthy, influential city for centuries. Today it is a thriving, fashionable city, the centre of the world...
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24 hours in Rotterdam on a Monday
Rotterdam, the Netherlands I left Chris standing on a platform in Belgium waiting for a train to take him Brussels airport; from now on, I am solo travelling. We had both planned our last night...
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Amsterdam: James Bond, Ships and a Vermeer
Amsterdam I had two days in Amsterdam, I hadn’t quite formulated my route and Amsterdam seemed a good place to decide which way to go. It was somewhere I’d never been, yet had wanted to, and probably...
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Miniatur Wunderland
Miniatur Wunderland, Hamburg The world’s biggest model railway? As far as tourist sites in Hamburg go, the Miniatur Wunderland had my name written all over it! I went as a train geek – I will confess...
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Finding Christmas in Northern Europe
Finding Christmas in Northern Europe Merry Christmas, Hyvää Joulua, God Jul, Glædelig Jul, Frohe Weihnachten! Rather than a usual type of post I thought I’d simply share with you all the Christmassy...
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By train to Copenhagen
By train to Copenhagen The lure to head to north was too much, Scandinavia called me. So there I was, stood on platform 5b at Hamburg station waiting for the InterCity Express 33 to transport me to...
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