Travel bites: Lavenham revisited
Returning to Lavenham for a weekend break in a pandemic summer. The historic Suffolk village still delights
Travel bites: a family weekend on the Kent coast
Or how to pretend you’re on holiday during a pandemic Last time I was away from London, it was cold, the snow was falling in southern Italy, I was commuting to my place of work in the City and I was planning to meet friends for dinner once a week or so. That’s a lifetime ago, isnt it? Early March. When – upon going to visit my family for a weekend – I was made to feel quite uncomfortable being…
Going to Italy by train with a dog
One more wonderful trip to southern Italy by train with my girl
Coffee & breakfast in Zurich
Top 8 coffee shops in Zurich Despite having been to Zurich now a number of times, I confess it is not a city I know well from a cultural or touristy perspective. In fact, I go there for work and sadly never manage to spend enough time to sight see. What I do manage to do, is search for the best coffee houses in town so that I can at least treat myself before heading into my work day which…
Travel bites: hosting on Airbnb
The up (few) and downs (many) of hosting on Airbnb For a number of reasons which I am not going to dwell on, we found ourselves managing a friend’s flat via Airbnb for a couple of months. What seemed a great idea at first, turned into a real nightmare. So much, that I have decided to write about, partly to alert anyone planning to do the same, but also partly to vent about what we’ve had to endure as ‘hosts’…