Life's about experiences. These are mine.
When you’re jet-lagged and know that you are going to have difficulty sleeping and most likely waking up early, the last thing you want is to be woken by an alarm in your room. But this is exactly what happened to us just after midnight. Unusually this wasn’t a tonal allarm but spoken and rather …
This is the holiday that we were supposed to be taking before it got postponed by Covid, and then when we were freed from those restrictions, we did go to the US again but went to the West Coast instead. So, this holiday to see New England in the Fall has been a long time …
I have many and varied interests but when it comes to sport I have only one: motorsport. More specifically F1 and I really only have eyes for the Williams Racing team. So when I saw that there was an F1 Exhibition coming to London and organised by F1 itself I booked up. The exhibition was …
It’s time for the annual Heritage Open Days. I found this year that it was more difficult to find things to attend because many on the local list I have done before. I think that in future I may need to travel further afield. Anyway, I have booked onto a couple for this year starting …
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The Proms or more accurately as it is now known “BBC Proms” is an institution and something that I’ve had on my bucket list for quite a while. As it says in Wikipedia most people if asked would cite The Last Night as their view of the Proms. This appears to me to be a …
Our last full day in Edinburgh was the usual frenetic activities followed by and a couple of hours of wondering what to do. It would be hard to fill your day completely and knackering too so you are left with pockets of time sat in coffee shops waiting to move on. It is also quite …
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With so many shows on at the Fringe you take a bit of a punt of what you might like to see and hope it turns out for the best. Today we managed a 66.6% success rate I would say. I paid for this! Our first show, held in the back room of a pub, …
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Our first full day and a morning to fill until our first booked event so we wandered over to the book festival site. We’d already checked before coming up if there were any events that coincided with our time here but sadly there were not. However, it is still an interesting place to visit and …
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Edinburgh has got it all going on in August which is why we keep coming back. The International Festival, International Book Festival, Fringe Festival, The West End Fair and the Military Tattoo, and we’ve pretty much done them all with the exception of the latter. I think that this is our fourth time in Edinburgh …
Cliveden is one of the most popular National Trust sites, partly because of its proximity to large numbers of people and because its a great place with a fascinating history. At the heart of the site is Cliveden House but unlike most National Trust sites you cannot go around the house as it is leased …