A Weekend In Amsterdam For First-Timers

Amsterdam for the weekend A Weekend In Amsterdam – Guide For First-Timers Why would you book a weekend in Amsterdam? It isn’t the home of Dutch royalty so there’s no palace residence. No one thought to build a big clock and name it after their family Labrador. And, there aren’t any world-famous giant sculptures resembling…

20 Awesome Weekend Break Ideas In The UK

UK WEEKEND AWAY IDEAS If you’re anything like us you try to pepper your main summer holiday with a sprinkle of fun UK weekend breaks every year, right? A Cheeky weekend away to unwind. And, when you’re asking the question ‘where can I go for a weekend away?’ U.K.’s answers are endless and we never…

Top 10 Things To Do In Puglia, Italy (+ map)

Puglia has to be one of Italy’s prettiest regions, with its gleaming limestone towns, beautiful paradise beaches and verdant countryside of olive groves and vineyards. You could be here for months and still be discovering a new pretty little place to visit each day – Puglia definitely got the memo about how to pull off…

A Istria Travel Guide In Photo’s

Istria, Croatia – A Travelogue & Photo Journal Istria is the northern peninsula of Croatia, shaped like an inverted triangular arrow pointing to the rest of the country, like it’s saying ‘don’t look at us, check out the big boys like Split and Dubrovnik’. It’s trying desperately to remain a secret and unspoilt by the…

Day 5 & 6 – Lake Bled

Day 5 & 6 as part of our Summer Roadtrip 2018 visiting the Italian Dolomites, Lake Bled and Istria. A travel diary, if you will… Lake Bled, Slovenia Lake Bled is definitely one of the prettiest lakes I’ve ever seen. It has a circumference of only 4 miles so even the most unfit tourist could manage…

Day 4 – Brixen & Braies with some Austria on the side

Day 4 as part of our Summer Roadtrip 2018 visiting the Italian Dolomites, Lake Bled and Istria. A travel diary, if you will… Brixen And Lake Braies With A Bit Of Austria I’m really going to miss this place; the smell of clean air, being fenced in by the most beautiful pieces of limestone, the urge…

Day 3 – Staying Local In The Val Di Fassa

Day 3 as part of our Summer Roadtrip 2018 visiting the Italian Dolomites, Lake Bled and Istria. A travel diary, if you will… Val Di Fassa Waking in cold sweats my subconscious had clocked before I had that this was to be our last full day in the most beautiful country on earth. Moving on…

Day 2 – Italian Dolomites & Bolzano

Day 2 as part of our Summer Roadtrip 2018 visiting the Italian Dolomites, Lake Bled and Istria. A travel diary, if you will… Pordoi Pass, Italian Dolomites Apart from the fact our waiter was far too happy for 7.30 in the morning and it was about all I could do to crack a bon giorno…

Day 1 – Italian Dolomites

5 hours driving and many epics views later I sit on my hotel bed with this amazing view. Feeling a tad too city-gal next to all the other holiday-makers who look like Regatta threw up over them, I think I misjudged this place. Apart from not buying my holiday wardrobe from Millets I also didn’t…

Review : Lake Maggiore Zipline

I don’t want to lie to you – I was having secret panic attacks at the thought of Ziplining 2K across a huge forest at 80mph. They had to be secret as I wasn’t about to let my kids know how much of a wuss I was : I teach them to be brave on…

A Self-Guided Walking Tour Of Nottingham

A Tour Of Nottingham Nottingham is famous for many reasons, not least that it’s menfolk seem to like wearing tights – think Robin Hood and Dean off of Torvil and Dean. It’s also the home of Raleigh™, Boots The Chemist, Paul Smith, lace, the very first football club, cricket and the oldest inn in England….

A Road Trip Through North Norfolk’s Coastal Beauty Spots

A Coastal Drive In North Norfolk Norfolk is for old people. Posh old people to be more precise. All that Norfolk lavender on their doorstep – they can posy till their heart’s content and sleep so soundly for the last decade of their life! A land so flat and water-laden it makes the Dutch weep. And,…

The Premier Inn Hub, Brick Lane – Budget Hotel Review

The Hub, by Premier Inn On Brick Lane In Spitalfields. I knew it was a London budget hotel room and I knew it would be small, that I had been told, but the name Hub? I started singing the nursery rhyme Old Mother Hubbard, except this time, instead of going to the cupboard, she was…

Holiday Sickness Sucks! – Advice For Before, During And After.

A few years ago my brother needed medical attention on holiday in Greece because he’d had an allergic reaction to the feather pillows – after being prescribed medicine from a local pharmacist it took 3 grown adults to help him off the plane home, including one of us to just guide his legs. No alcohol…

You Just Have To Visit Honfleur, France!

Honfleur France – Stick It On Your List! On our recent road trip from the UK to Portugal, we made our first overnight stop at Honfleur, Normandy. It was the first place we visited and it was the most lasting memory I had at the end of our 3-week epic journey! Inspired by another travel…

Have a Roald Dahl Day

Roald Dahl For Everyone… Back in the day, when giving croggies and playing kerbie had you exhausted by 8 o’clock, the ultimate wind-down session was a few chapters of the latest Roald Dahl book, in bed with a mam that collected accents for a hobby. The Twits had you thinking up tricks to play on…

Parks In Nottingham – Which One’s Are Worth Your Picnic?

Parks In Nottingham – Our Top Picks… Maybe you’re a tourist in Nottingham, wanting to find some green space? Or maybe you’re a local and just don’t venture beyond your immediate town that often? Whatever, it’s Summer and we should all be making the most of these patches of turf that this fine city has…