Discover Blandford Forum
Another wonderful overnight stop: Blandford Forum, Dorset. Small village full of things to explore and discover.
Travel bites: Lavenham revisited
Returning to Lavenham for a weekend break in a pandemic summer. The historic Suffolk village still delights
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’…
Visiting London with a dog
Dog friendly cities: London As I am finally planning my first journey to Italy by train, with Amber of course (why else would I spend two days in the heat of August trying to reach the beaches of Southern Italy?), I found myself researching how dog friendly Paris is, as we’ll be spending a few hours lay over on the way down and a night on the way back. As it turns out, Paris is not that dog friendly (and…
Chocolate Ecstasy Tours – Mayfair
Chocolate and sightseeing For a while I had been meaning to check out Chocolate Ecstasy Tours, run by my friend and chocolate connoisseur Jennifer Earle. She’s been running them for years now and has established herself as one of the UK’s top experts in anything cocoa related, as well as a business entrepreneur (she also runs Taster Tripper app, more to come). She’s a judge on a number of chocolate tasting awards and she’s overall a great girl with lots…