The joy of Autumn It’s the time of the year when summer plants put away their brightly-coloured flowers, some trees start shedding their leaves, sprinkling the ground with colours of…

I always look forward to our annual trip to Warwickshire to visit my partner’s brother in Claverdon, Warwickshire. The journey from the New Forest by car is about 125 miles…

When one thinks of Warwickshire, Stratford-upon-Avon and Warwick immediately spring to mind. However the elegant spa town of Leamington Spa nearby has a lot going for it, too. It has…

As my partner hails from Bideford, our annual trip to north Devon tends to be based around there. This year I planned something different and chose to stay in Barnstaple to…

Bolzano is known as “the gateway to the Dolomites” for good reasons. It’s the nearest city to the heart of the Dolomites. It took us only 1 hour 10 minutes…

It’s my other half’s turn to celebrate his milestone birthday in June. He chose to spend it in Val di Fassa in the Dolomites where butterflies are plentiful for him…

What can be a more traditional English weekend break than to have mid morning refreshment in a pretty market town, visit a stately home, stay in a quaint hotel and…

Unlike Utrecht which oozes gregarious vibes, The Hague exudes regal charms and sophistication. It’s expectable, given its status as the home of United Nations’ International Court of Justice and the…

Utrecht, the 4th largest city in the Netherlands is all that – vibrant, incredible and pretty! Vibrant  – with students accounting for one-fifths of its population, the largest in the country, it’s…

Although it’s only the fifth largest city in Switzerland, Bern is the Swiss capital. There’re not the usual frantic and hectic activities associated with capital cities here. Bern has an…