A lifestyle blog
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.
. Farnham Castle has sat on our doorstep for ten years and yet we have never visited. Well technically speaking it has sat on the hill just outside Farnham for 900 years but our doorstep has only been around the corner from it for ten years. On Sunday morning last week we decided to go for a mooch. Mr B has been sent a camera by Calumet
Okay so it wasn’t “all” girls on our weekend away, there was one lovely chap, but this was, for me, an escape for the weekend to spend some time with a group of bloggers I knew very well, to meet some I hadn’t met before, and to really get to know HolidayCottages.co.uk who had invited us all to stay in one of their managed properties. How could I refuse?
. Chateau de la Cheine was built in the 1840’s for a Colonel in the French Army, titled Chateau de la Ressegue originally, the owners sold the name to the neighbours . It is the most “important” building in the commune and provided employment for the local people but was bought twenty years ago by Karen and Clive as a home in France. A home they now let out
.How to go on holiday with friends and not kill them Next weekend we are off on holiday. Staying at Chateau de la Cheine: a ten bedroom property in France that sleeps 20. Sounds fabulous doesn’t it, the idea of taking a bunch of mates away with you on holiday for five days. But how do you go away and enjoy yourselves, and then also
. Airport Parking is one of those hidden costs and hassles of a holiday, one of the reasons we end up getting home tired. It’s not that it’s particularly difficult, but lugging suitcases around car parks in the cold (and sometimes rain) when you’ve got your plane/arrival clothes on is just a bit of a pain. I know we’re lucky to have a foreign holiday – didn’t think we’d get
. If you are spending time in Barbados and looking to play golf then you really should be thinking about playing Royal Westmoreland . It is an opportunity you can’t miss. Well you can but it would be a real shame. Many have declared it the best golf course on Barbados. Last time Mr B was playing Royal Westmoreland he took notes of each tee and took photos
. On Monday night last week we had a barbecue on the beach in Holetown, Barbados. The setting couldn’t have been more perfect. Sunset. A deserted beach. The Caribbean Sea gently lapping onto the sand. Friends. Rum punch. Fish we had caught the day before, served with barbecued butternut squash. It couldn’t have been a more perfect spot. Even though it was in front of
. I realised this week that I need to really practice my holiday skills. I don’t mean that as an excuse to take more holidays, I mean it because I don’t find holidays relaxing and that is just plain wrong. First of all I don’t sleep. So I have been awake pretty much every morning at 3am. Some days I have been working but on my days
. This little church close to the Folkestone Marine Park in Holetown is quiet and unassuming yet steeped in history, well it would be, it stands on ground that was consecrated in the 1600s. It is on an area known as “God’s Acre” and is where the first settlers arrive at around the same time. And as they passed away man of them are buried in the graveyard
. Along every coast road in Barbados there is a fish market. It might be an one governed by the Island’s Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, or it could be a table at the end of somebody’s drive. Either way, you know it is going some of the best fish you have ever tasted, zero airmiles, and caught within the past 24 hours. I am not a huge
There is a new kid on the festival block that I am hugely excited about. Well, it is new to me. It is very different from a lot of the other festivals, and ticks alot of boxes for me. In fact it ticks every box that I love, and that I hate about most other festivals (with the exception of Camp Bestival of course). RAW FEST is
. I was invited to join a bunch of journalists (I know, me, posing as a journalist) recently on a trip to Rome to learn about tyres and tyre safety with Bridgestone (see other post for the tyre stuff – you can thank me later). After the two days of serious stuff was over, we headed into Rome for a lovely dinner in the area “across the Tiber” Trastevere (Tevere