The drive from Salisbury to Bath, about 40 miles and just over an hour, was a beautiful one. Long country roads, beautiful scenery and lots of pretty cottages to drive past was a lovely way to start the morning. In all honesty, that felt like a nice thing to do in itself. When we droveRead More
Spending A Day In Salisbury
As I live in Yorkshire, and I tend to prefer European City breaks, I’ve never spent a lot of time in South West England. But recently I went to pick my friend and her belongings up from Salisbury as she’s moved back to Yorkshire, and decided to spend a day in Salisbury whilst I wasRead More
Realising You’re Dealing With A Narcissist
A few weeks ago, I wrote about realising my relationship was a lie. Since the relationship ended, in November, I’ve found a very good friend in his daughter’s Mum (I doubt he’d ever read this but he always said I’d like her-guess what, Ian, you were right!) and through our many conversations, and the ongoingRead More
Elphinstone Hotel Biggar Review AD Gifted
Due to the Coronavirus outbreak, travel is pretty limited at the moment, and I’d recently cancelled my planned trip to Bucharest (so sad, but turned out to be right decision.) When Fiona asked me if I fancied joining her to review the Elphinstone Hotel Biggar and spend a night in Scotland, I was definitely notRead More
Planning A Multi Country Trip
Since my February 2019 trip, which started with £5 each way flights to Hamburg and ended with me getting a coach to Copenhagen then a train to Stockholm, multi country trips are my jam. I’m aiming for 40 before 40 (visiting 40 different countries before I turn 40 years old) and so hitting two orRead More
Realising Your Relationship Was A Lie
This is a post I’ve started writing a fair bit but up until now hadn’t carried on with, for a few reasons. I’d like to make it very clear that none of these reasons are the man involved, and in the end I decided my blog, my rules, right? Writing is like therapy for me,Read More
40 Before 40…An Update
A while ago, I wrote about my plan for 40 before 40; my goal to visit cities in forty different countries, before I hit 40 years old. I stalled a bit on this in 2019 (although I did visit Copenhagen, Stockholm and Porto, so added three to my list) but I’m still only at sixteenRead More
48 Hours In Porto
Portugal was another not really on my radar country (much like Sweden, until I visited Stockholm) but knowing I was booking a trip in May, after my cold February one, I wanted somewhere that would definitely be a bit warmer. I’d seen a few bloggers talk about Porto and that it was full of streetRead More
Being Honest-What’s Going On
We’ve all seen those ‘what have you achieved these last ten years’ tweets going round and, if you’d asked me a few weeks ago, I would’ve said a lot. I’ve had jobs I loved, jobs I hated but learnt a lot from, made friends and lost friends, found a love of travel and bought aRead More