Canterbury
An extended weekend trip to Canterbury for Christmas shopping and fun Continue reading
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Seasonal Seaside
After having visited it was back to familiarity with a little jaunt out to our favourite bit of seaside, down Hastings way.
Winning Winchester
A trip to the historic city of Winchester, with sight seeing, and some steam trains! Continue reading
Steaming Up North
Catching up a bit here, from the end of March/beginning of April, which saw Heather and I heading north to my home city of Newcastle, with a bit of an elongated weekend.
Chester Valentine
A long delayed trip to Chester Continue reading
Seaside Stretched
Let’s go to Hastings for a short little break we thought. What a good idea! And then the bloody train strikes got announced, for the day we were supposed to be going and the day we were coming back. So a short break turned into a longer break by the Continue reading …
The Many, Many Churches Of Easter
It’s been a long time and a different life since I last visited Norwich but Heather and I returned there (it had been even longer for her), mainly thanks to a game of “where are the trains actually running to” over Easter. Turns out there are way more churches than Continue reading …
Doing The Duck
It’s summer, so another trip to Hastings was of course forthcoming for Heather and I. This time there was a wonderful art trail to catch our attention too, so we headed down to the coast for a week, to Follow That Duck.
Lifted In Chester
An eventual return to Chester, with open air theatre, and a boat lift! Continue reading
An Outlaw Break
Sometimes one ends up taking a break somewhere almost at random, or at least because it’s somewhere the trains seem to be running to across Easter weekend. Hence Heather and I found ourselves heading to Nottingham on what turned out to be a gloriously sunny long weekend. Continue reading