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.
Friday night fish fry is synonymous with Barbados. All over the island small gazebos pop up on a Friday afternoon and as the sun sets the locals start frying fish to sell to passers by. Oistins is the most famous on the island but for us that is too busy and too much like a tourist trap. We like ours to be a bit more “ethnic”.
Well it’s all about the sea out here isn’t it? The cool water of the Caribbean. You can either sit on the beach and watch it or you can get in it. And swim / jet ski / lie on a Catamaran. Or do what we do. Go on a glass bottomed boat and spent the day sitting in the sun drinking rum whilst you peer
This fabulous pottery works sits up on a hill over looking the west coast of Barbados and has, in my opinion, one of the most spectacular views on the island. As it rained at the villa yesterday we headed to the hills to see if the weather would be any better, as it often is if you go inland and get higher, or go to the other side. As we
If you have been to Barbados, you have been to the Round House. It sits right on the edge of the Atlantic side of the island in a town called Bathsheba and has the most spectacular view. We have been here a number of times for a drink, but finally got to eat here yesterday. It was a miserable day so we headed off in search of some sun.
The Malmaison Hotel Oxford I told you the story this week of an afternoon I spent in prison last year, having tea with a murderer. Well this year I went to prison again. This time overnight. It went something like this between J and I: Mum I have been invited to a party in Oxford on Saturday night Quick mental calculation in my head that Oxford is an hour and
Land’s End, Cornwall There is a lot of chatter in the press today about Land’s End and the arrival imminently of the Olympic Torch in Cornwall. This is where the real countdown to London 2012 begins for Britain. Until our recent trip to Trevella, near Newquay none of us had ever been to Land’s End before. I certainly hadn’t as I just thought it was the end of the
We were thrilled to be invited to spend a weekend at Trevella Park in Cornwall. I have never stayed in a caravan park in the UK before so this was going to be an adventure. And as much as I fancied a teepee I also wanted my own loo so plumped for a “holiday home”. We arrived at 11pm and as promised we were in our home within minutes of
Sadly this is not a glowing review of the Malmaison in Reading, I really wish it was. At the end of a very stressful week last week came a little tunnel of light in the shape of a very good friend’s hen do. A private room at Malmaison had been booked for eight of us to have dinner before going on somewhere else for some more drinking and dancing. The
Reading Festival — A review Well we appear to have survived. My first ever festival and I might say, my last. So there was mud. Everybody knows there will be mud at festivals. It’s the law, isn’t it? And as our campsite was the furthest from the main arena we saw our fair share of it. From the outset I have to say that Reading Festival is fabulously organised and
I am going to let the photos speak for themselves in this post. A bit like Silent Sunday, but there are more than one. You may not know this but private beaches are banned in Barbados. If you are lucky enough to own a beach front property you are prohibited by law from blocking access to the beach for the public. But if this is not as good as private,
For Sale — One refurb project with incredible view I am letting you into a little secret in an effort to raise funds to help me do my refurb project. If you buy into this project you get visitation rites. It is a small beach front property on the very southern tip of Barbados, in an area called Surfers Point. Down where the Atlantic meets the Caribbean and where the
It is easy to eat well in Barbados. And for the purposes of this post, by “well” I mean, expensively. It is also easy to eat well, plenty of fresh fish etc and locally grown fruit and veg but that isn’t really what people know Barbados for. Everybody who comes to Barbados has heard of The Cliff. Plenty of people who haven’t been here have heard of it. It