Basel, the third largest Swiss city situated on the banks of Rhine River in northwest Switzerland, close to the country’s borders with France and Germany, was to have been just…

This post is part of a series called Sweet Somerset What’s in a name?  Well, far from being irrelevant as implied by Shakespeare, a name fires the imagination, conjures up…

This post is part of a series called Madeira After 2 years of staycation, I was thrilled to be able to travel abroad again. Madeira in January was the ideal…

What a fabulous way to wind up the year with a visit to National Trust’s Stourhead to see the magical light show! It took just over an hour to follow…

“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life”, so said Dr Samuel Johnson in 1777. I wouldn’t go that far, but on my third break in…

As one last fling at staycation before the onset of winter, my partner and I spent a few days in north Wiltshire. What an inspired and fortuitous choice! Not only…

London – brash, bold and bewitching – was the exact antithesis of the rural destination of my recent outings. London is a beguiling mix of elegant period buildings and ultra…

My friends assumed that a hodophile like me, or frog traveller as my friend Galina calls me, would be moping around waiting for the travel restrictions abroad to be lifted….

How could I follow up a great day in Stratford Upon Avon? (see link) Have a walking tour of wonderful Warwick guided by a local – my partner’s brother, of…

The Cotswolds (which means “King Cod’s lands”), famous for picturesque villages, spread across six English counties in central England – Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Somerset, Warwickshire, Wiltshire and Worcestershire. It’s a perfect place…