This post is part of a series called In and around London London – brash, bold and bewitching – was the exact antithesis of the rural destination of my recent…

This post is part of a series called English cities & towns My friends assumed that a hodophile like me, or frog traveller as my friend Galina calls me, would…

This post is part of a series called English cities & towns How could I follow up a great day in Stratford Upon Avon? (see link) Have a walking tour…

This post is part of a series called English cities & towns The Cotswolds (which means “King Cod’s lands”), famous for picturesque villages, spread across six English counties in central…

This post is part of a series called English cities & towns What can I say about Gloucester except that it’s a great base for exploring the Cotswolds (see separate…

This post is part of a series called Wonderful Wiltshire Once I came to terms with not going abroad this year, I stopped checking what countries were on the red,…

This post is part of a series called Wonderful Wiltshire There is more to Wiltshire than Stonehenge, Salisbury Cathedral, Stourhead, Longleat etc. etc. Away from the traffic queues heading for…

This post is part of a series called In and around London “Let’s do London” says the TV ad …. That’s just what my partner and I did last weekend!  With…

This post is part of a series called Sweet Somerset To make our trip to Hunters Inn (link) and North Devon (link) in mid June 2021 more interesting, my partner…

This post is part of a series called Delightful Devon With foreign travel fraught with difficulties, and alleviation nowhere in sight, staycation seems to be the only way to revive…