Destinations

I was supposed to be off to Puglia …. but with quarantine in place, and then EasyJet cancelling most of their flights…it was a  non starter. To make up for my disappointment, I joined my walking friends once more. They wanted to climb to the ‘Tors’ on Dartmoor, I insisted on Exmoor for comparison. The…

  I have always got excited about travelling to the West Country for a holiday. I holidayed there as a child, with my children and now, for the first time this year, with my baby Grandson. Although we have stayed all over Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Cornwall including the Scilly Isles lately we have enjoyed…

With all the uncertainty around travel and what might be possible we decided to return to an old family favourite in Devon for our summer staycation this year. This is a place that we have been visiting on and off for the last 22 years and it is just as good now as it was…

“Go and get dressed. We are going on a little holiday”. The word “holiday” is one that we have all taken for granted for so long yet had now just created a wave of pure excitement and joy in the house. So many questions of where are we going, how long for, can we go…

Weekends away: yes, I have enjoyed these but more than a whole week’s holiday in the UK was a novelty for me. The first worry is always the weather for me and the lack of ‘foreignness’ which I normally so enjoy. However, when friends ask me to join them in Croyde on the North Devon…

Ok – so it’s raining, but don those wellies and that rain hat – the rain brings out the best furry caterpillars, butterflies, muddy puddles and rainbows! Staycations are the in thing at the moment and I had a week away in a lovely corner of England, not too far from home, and as English-sea-side…