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.
Hogwarts At Christmas — A review I have been trying really hard not to mention Christmas until December. I don’t want to even think about it until after E’s birthday mid November, not even have it on my radar. But this year I had no choice. Well I did have a choice, of course I did, but sometimes rules are made to be broken. Especially when it involves Hogwarts. An
Thorpe Park Fright Night — A review If you read this blog regularly you will know that we are huge fans of Thorpe Park. It is only up the road and when the teens want to do something with their mates it is always our first stop. J decided he wanted to go this week with a couple of mates and experience Fright Night. Mr B experiences Fright Night seven
Mercure Bristol and National Chocolate week “I have been asked if we want to go to Bristol for a chocolatey weekend as part of National Chocolate Week. It’s to stay at the Mercure and sample their “Chocolate Unwrapped” experience. It includes dinner, chocolate Martinis, overnight stay in the hotel, and a spa treatment each with a chocolate massage“ “Bristol? You would go to Aberdeen for that wouldn’t you?!” “I
It’s a fact that it rains in Barbados. You don’t get an island as green as Barbados without some rain. And if you come in the summer you have to appreciate it will rain, possibly everyday. HOWEVER, it generally rains over night, or first thing in the morning. Sometimes you get the odd shower during the day though, although it is rare that it rains all day. But on rainy
I always find it takes a while to get into a holiday. To wind down and to feel that “ahhhh I am on holiday finally” feeling. And I know that all islands are sort of horizontal because if they were vertical we would all fall off them, but Barbados feels more horizontal than most. For the past few years we have been coming to Barbados to a villa that is
Warner Bros Studio tour — The Making of Harry Potter “What shall we do for the day when we meet up with your uncle Gavin on August 3rd?” said my mum. My uncle is younger than me (long story) and lives in the US. He was over here for three weeks with his wife and two children and the only day we were free to meet up with them,
It was during a recent episode of the cruise on BBC2 just as theywere talking about the average age of their customer being 68 that an email came through with our itinerary for a day aboard The Independence of the Seas. Mr B’s heart sank but I reassured him that Royal Caribbean cruises were as far removed from the ship in front of us on the TV as it was
London Dungeon — A review When I was asked if I would like to review the London Dungeons I wasn’t sure I could. Not because of any constraints on our diary but because I had heard it was super scary. So scary that grown women had to leave via the nearest “emergency exit”. Hmm well that sounds like a challenge to me and having done Thorpe Park scary rides, well
The Cavendish Hotel, London. A review It has been the craziest start to the year. For all sorts of reasons. Most of them self inflicted. So when the chance to review a hotel came up we were quite hugely excited. “Pick a date” they said. So we did, for half term so that we didn’t have to worry about getting home to do the school run or calling in a
You know sometimes you see something and you think “er, what?” or even “how on earth?” Well I do that every time I see this. So much so that this time we stopped to take a pic of it so I could capture it and ask your opinion of how this has come about: What was it? Where is the rest of it? Was it built there? Did
….. a great lyric from a much covered song. And actually it is true sometimes. Yesterday Mr B and I found “our beach”. A spot we discovered on our honeymoon and thought that, due to lots of building work over subsequent years, it had been lost forever. Back in 2008 we had stopped for fuel and realised it was lunch time so thought we would grab some
I just wanted to share this picture with you. This is aloe vera growing naturally and it is everywhere on Barbados. You simply cut off a leaf, slit it open and then slide the cool gel out. One of those leaves would probably be enough to fill 200ml tube back home. *Gregg Wallace voice* Sunburn relief doesn’t get much fresher than that.