This post is part of a series called In and around London At the last weekend when we visited my daughter and son-in-law in London, they gave us a surprise…

This post is part of a series called Gorgeous English Gardens The joy of Autumn It’s the time of the year when summer plants put away their brightly-coloured flowers, some…

This post is part of a series called English cities & towns I always look forward to our annual trip to Warwickshire to visit my partner’s brother in Claverdon, Warwickshire….

This post is part of a series called English cities & towns When one thinks of Warwickshire, Stratford-upon-Avon and Warwick immediately spring to mind. However the elegant spa town of…

This post is part of a series called Delightful Devon As my partner hails from Bideford, our annual trip to north Devon tends to be based around there. This year…

This post is part of a series called Wonderful Wiltshire What can be a more traditional English weekend break than to have mid morning refreshment in a pretty market town,…

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 Gorgeous English Gardens What a fabulous way to wind up the year with a visit to National Trust’s Stourhead to see the…

This post is part of a series called In and around London “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life”, so said Dr Samuel Johnson in…

This post is part of a series called Wonderful Wiltshire As one last fling at staycation before the onset of winter, my partner and I spent a few days in…