Archive For The “travel” Category
Yorkshire is always being named among the best places to holiday in Britain. 216 million people visit the region every year. Yorkshire folk are proud of their roots but sometimes even we take for granted what’s under our noses. I was born, grew up and have nearly always lived here but there are still things [...]
Somewhere very high up on my must visit in 2013 list is The Bivouac in Masham, near Ripon, North Yorkshire. By a 70-acre woodland – complete with a 19th century Druid’s temple – and set in the 20,000 acre Swinton Estate, its accommodation is in hand-crafted woodland shacks and the facilities, including a gorgeous-looking café, are [...]
Recently I spent the most blissful couple of days with Alex and one of our very best friends. We checked in at Titanic Spa in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. I don’t really ‘do’ spas. I’ve only been to one once before and it was just an afternoon really, it was my hen do and I sort [...]
This article has been written by Sarah Oxley on behalf of LS-1, providers of flats in Leeds and the Yorkshire area. Christmas is just around the corner, and while (if you’re like me) you’re probably rushing around trying to get all the Christmas shopping done and wondering why you didn’t start early this year, like [...]
My husband is besotted with the north west seaside town of Morecambe, because he spent so much time there as a kid with his grandparents. (Quite sweet really, I guess). Consequently I’ve spent more time there in the last few years than I, as a Yorkshire girl and lover of our coast, ever imagined I would. [...]
The other day I blogged about our fabulous {if too brief} time in Paris, as part of a holiday around our wedding anniversary. Afterwards we headed south, to the Dordogne, in search of good food, wine and sun. We found plenty of the first two, sadly less of the second. More rain than we would [...]
Recently it was the second anniversary of our wonderful wedding. Of course, we wanted to get away to celebrate but had to postpone doing so because of a couple of things out of our control. In Ernest Hemingway’s novel of the same title as this post, which chronicles his time in Paris, he says France’s [...]
The other day I came across a project I immediately signed up to and through which I hope to share my love of writing and exploring with people from all over the world. The Travelling Notebooks project is the brainchild of two Sheffield bloggers Cindy Cheung and Emma Fisher who wanted to promote what they call “the sometimes [...]
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