Nostalgia for the romance of a bygone era makes travelling by steam trains more popular than ever. This poster displayed at Swanage station certainly captures that glamour! Steam trains run…

Labels can be misleading and give rise to misconceptions. It’s certainly true in the case of Swanage. The reference to “a fun seaside resort” conjures up images of rowdy revellers, tacky…

Last Friday (30 June ) we visited our friends who moved to Bournemouth. I confess that I tend to avoid Bournemouth, though it has a lot going for it, especially…

The travel restrictions imposed by the pandemic of 2020 made me appreciate more the places nearer home that have been taken for granted. This frame of mind prompted me to…

Whitchurch in north Hampshire is not a name thst’s on everyone’s lips, much less that of a tourist’s!  It’s just under 30 minutes from Salisbury and over an hour on…

Leominster or Ledbury? From my research, both towns are easily accessible by train from Hereford Both are famous for their black and white timber-framed buildings, a feature of this area….

Ross on Wye became known as “the birthplace of Picturesque Tourism” after being featured in the first travel guidebook about the Wye Valley in 1782. The accounts of the first…

Hereford is diametrically opposed to cosmopolitan Hong Kong of my recent visit but a change of pace for few days in rural Hereford was just what I needed after a…

After an absence of 3 years it’s a joy for me to be back in Hong Kong which survived the traumas of the scary riots and the ensuing pandemic.  There’s…

In all the time that I have spent in Hong Kong, I never really explored Hong Kong Island but I made an effort to make amends on this trip, starting…