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We love exploring, either close to home on an afternoon out, slightly further afield on a weekend away, or to a far flung destination picked because it happened to be on page 83 of the travel guide and we were asked to pick a number between 1 and 230.
Walking away from Hatchlands Park on Sunday afternoon I stopped a dad with his son and asked if I could photograph his little boy enjoying one of the many free Space Hoppers that littered the front lawn. It seemed to sum up perfectly why this National Trust property is the perfect place to go for an afternoon of family fun. Even though the weather hadn’t been great and there
Can we just pretend it is Wednesday? And not Thursday. Or that some kind of technical glitch meant that this post, written and planned over the weekend, was published 24 hours late. That it is going up, and into your inboxes on Thursday, has nothing to do with me sitting down at 5pm on Wednesday evening and exclaiming “bugger, it’s Wednesday isn’t it”. Great, thanks. So now that
Shakespeare died 400 years ago this year. He’d have been 445 if he was still alive, you know. Just THINK how many plays he’d have written by now – we’d have needed an infinite number of zoos, each with an infinite number of monkeys to type all that lot. However, to commemorate the fact that our greatest English-speaking playwright would have been 446 this year, Stratford upon Avon is having
Window Wednesday this week is from the RSC in Stratford Upon Avon We were at the RSC during our weekend in Stratford exploring all the town has to offer. Its just under two hours away and I had never been so thought it might be fun to play at being tourists for couple of days. We had a tour of the RSC booked for Saturday that included a visit
Given how much we hear about Jordan on the news at the moment you might be forgiven for thinking it is not the best place for a holiday. After all, I have just come back from a few days visiting a refugee camp there and all my photos show city scapes or endless miles of desert. But there is so much more to Jordan than just that.
When asked by a group of bloggers at Britmums how you get into travel writing, Simon Calder, Travel Editor for the Independent replied: Start in your own back yard In our “back yard” is Fleet Pond. Just half a mile from our front door it is the largest freshwater lake in Hampshire, covering 52 acres. The total area of the nature reserve that it is in though is over
On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light Swap the colitas for oranges and the shimmering light for a young chap with a tea tray and this could have been California. Except it wasn’t it was Jordan, and it was the road known as the desert highway. The
Last weekend it was about trying to get over being away for five days: the culture shock of processing the stories we heard; the lack of sleep; the two 6 hour flights in five days; the lack of fresh air as we were mostly inside etc etc. The weather was not really on our side but Mr B and I were determined to get out with our cameras. Our new
. There is a sign near Farnborough station which has always intrigued me this sign says Chapelle Impériale And I’ve always wondered about it so yesterday I found their website and we trotted along. The Imperial Chapel was built to house the body of Napoleon the third Emperor of France. Yeah you read that right: Napoleon III, Emperor of France is …..I would say ‘buried’ but he’s not buried
The British Motor Museum re-opens to the public on Saturday 13 February following a £1.1m refurbishment. Formerly known as the Heritage Motor Centre, the new Museum will be visually more exciting with an immersive display of British motoring history, designed to appeal to both current fans as well as new audiences. Also opening on the 13 February is the new Collections Centre, allowing public access for the first time to
Romance your loved one in the beautiful and romantic setting of Shakespeare’s England over the Valentine’s weekend. Book into a luxury country house hotel, enjoy champagne teas and wine-tasting sessions, listen to sonnets and love scenes from Romeo & Juliet, wander around snowdrop gardens, make your own unique perfume or cologne, stroll along picturesque streets or simply relax over a romantic candle-lit dinner. See a performance by Emma Johnson and
. Last week I showed you the garden at The Vyne. A National Trust property that is down the road from us and where we found ourselves mooching one murky Sunday afternoon. The house is smaller than the original which was built in the sixteenth century by Willam, 1st Lord Sandy’s, who was Henry VIII Lord Chamberlain. The King visited the house three times and viewed it as one