When I was a little girl my parents had a holiday home in Christchurch, Dorset and we would spend weekends and sometimes longer there each year. I’ve only been there once or twice since they sold the house many years ago, and as we were in the area I wanted to pay the quaint town […]

I’ve had a bit of a mental crisis recently about the cost of travelling Britain as we appear to be haemorrhaging money everywhere we go. Of course, I knew that Britain would be one of the more costly countries to tour — I just hadn’t realised just how costly. I used to live and work […]

We managed to sneak onto ferry in Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) and get back to Lymington (on the UK mainland) a little earlier than booked and pointed Shirley the SatNav towards our B&B to expedite a much needed bath for the two of us. The B&B sat on the lovely grounds of a mediteranean-style hotel […]

Since a lack of spoons had put muesli off the menu, we drove on to find a person to deliver breakfast into our hands in exchange for a few coins. Instead, what we found was our first entrant into my newly created Rubbish People section of this Website: The local village bakery that caught our […]

The breakfast table was a little busy on the second morning that we spent at the campsite. A great idea: We’re mobile, let’s take our bowls of muesli and some milk with us in the car. We’ll stop as soon as we find somewhere peaceful and with a nice view. Off we went. Being on […]

Don’t do what we did: Boil up a nice flask of hot water. Pack said flask, two mugs and a spoon into day sack. Drive to remote location and walk around for a bit. Find suitable landmark, view or stopping point to have a sit down and a nice cup of coffee to reward self […]

We spent three nights on the Isle of Wight: A beautiful island, to be sure, however dulled by almost continuous rain during our visit. Here are some of the highlights from our time on the island. Following the culture shock of a wet campsite–for which neither of us had adequately mentally prepared–we escaped to the […]