As in all our trips in the last few years I booked our international flights using Qantas points, generally in Business class. Sometimes that means taking the “scenic route” home rather than the most direct. For our trip back home this time my only choice had been three legs, Paris…
We enjoyed the breakfast provided by Chateau des Arpentis on their terrace this morning on our wedding anniversary. In this photo you can see the building our apartment is in. I was sorry to check out, it’s been a lovely break here, however we had to head back closer to…
We had decided to cater for ourselves for breakfast this morning so we used our little oven to heat up croissants and enjoyed them with some lovel,y fruit we’d bought yesterday. The French supermarkets have such a wonderful variety of fresh fruits and some fabulous cheeses and deli items. Then…
When planning this trip I wanted us to stay somewhere a bit special for our last few days, over Neil’s birthday and our 42nd wedding anniversary. Our flight home was booked from Paris so a stay in a chateau in the Loire Valley (only a couple of hours drive from…
We changed our plans for today. Originally I’d planned to visit Blenheim palace before heading back to our hotel at Heathrow Airport. However when we thought about our priorities for what we’d like to see on our last day on probably our last visit to England we decided we’d prefer…
We had a longer driving day ahead of us today as we were heading to “The South”. We were amused that on the motorways they really do have signs directing you to “The South” or “The North”, almost as if they were two seperate parts of the country . In…
We’d had such a tasty dinner last night we went down to breakfast this morning with a feeling of anticipation, hoping for something special for breakfast. Neil was catching up on a little work so I went down first at our allotted time of 8 am (several hotels had asked…
And so we head south! It was only a 30 minute drive to the city of Durham where I was keen to see the cathedral. I’ve read it described as the finest and largest example of Norman architecture in England and anyone I know who has seen it has said…
You know you’ve been in the UK for a while when you start to crave a change from the “Full English” for breakfast! The trouble is the standard alternatives of Eggs Benedict and omelets also seem like a bit too much……but I don’t have the willpower to stick to toast…
In 1930 a young man called Alfred Wainright visited the Lake District and fell in love with the area. He later moved to Kendal and devoted his life to mapping the area, writing seven guidebooks. His Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells are a unique mixture of beautiful pen-and-ink sketches,…
We went down for breakfast earlier this morning so we could avoid the rush and it paid off…although we heard several,other people saying the same thing! In any case we were on the road out of Liverpool before 9 o’clock and headed North. We had one detour out to the…
With the concert, We had a late night last night, after midnight before we got to bed. We were laughing that it’s the first time we’ve been out in the dark since we’ve been in the UK, the days are so long here. So we slept a little later this…
