Travel tips-Restaurant reviews-Recipes
I’ve just had a lovely short break in Brittany with my daughter Nicola and grandson Rufus (see part one). After leaving a wet St Malo after lunch on the first day, we were pleased to find the weather brightening and sun forecast for our first evening in Dinan. We’d chosen Dinan as our base for […]
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My daughter Nicola and my grandson Rufus (7) were taking a car trip round Brittany and planning to finish in the St Malo area and Nicola invited me to join them for the last few days. This was partly in memory of my parents as our last holiday with them before Dad died in 2009 […]
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It had been a while since I’d seen my aunt Arleen (who is so close in age she’s a friend really) so I was excited to be making the trip to Kent again on Friday. Kent is where I grew up and much of my family still live there. Arleen lives in Birchington by the […]
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One of the wonderful things about having visitors, apart from spending time with good friends, is the incentive to find out more about what’s going on in your home town so that you have some exciting things to entertain them. My friend Lynn and I have known each other for over twenty years, but now […]
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After some rather grey, cold and windy weather over Easter, the last couple of days the sun has put in a welcome appearance and I’ve had to change into summer clothes and even locate the sun cream! Typical British weather than can change dramatically literally overnight. When I woke to a clear blue sky this […]
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Wrexham My son’s wife comes from Wrexham in North Wales and when they booked a farmhouse for a week so they could go up and visit her family, they invited me to join them. I was delighted to have a relaxing week with the family, enjoyed seeing the Welsh family, and the countryside around Wrexham […]
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When people hear about my blog, they often ask me which are my favourite restaurants and, of course, over the years the choices have changed. I’ve been writing this blog since 2011 and favourites then are perhaps not favourites now, or don’t even exist any more. When I was in Aldeburgh recently, someone in the […]
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Regular readers will know that Aldeburgh has become a favourite place for me to head to for a short break. It’s an easy and not too long drive and, most importantly, I’ve come to really love it there. I first went in June 2022. I wanted to explore Suffolk, a county I didn’t know at […]
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It was nearly six years since I’d last been to Nice – September 2019. That time I’d stayed just 4 nights; 5 nights in 2015, but this time I made it a whole week. I decided that it would be nicer to stay in an apartment rather than a hotel for the longer spell and […]
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Malaga is a great choice for a short break early in the year as it’s one of the warmest places in mainland Europe in the winter/spring time. Last time I was there in January 2020 the weather was lovely and sunny – though with some rain – and temperatures in the late teens, but I […]
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