We had a very pleasant surprise on reading about The “Treasure of Vix” a few days before our recent foray into France again and discovering it was on our route into Burgundy. The Treasure is a collection of artefacts housed… Read More ›
Travel
Where we’ve been and what we thought of it
Wild Northumbria and Bamburgh Castle!
Our journey from Durham to Bamburgh in Northumbria was straightforward; out of the city, onto the A1, head north but turn right before crossing into Scotland! It was about a mile outside the village of Bamburgh that this stunning view… Read More ›
Durham and the Prince Bishops
We left Whitby after the usual mammoth north of England breakfast which means we won’t need to eat again for 24 hours, especially after our northern fish and chips in Trenchers restaurant last night. There was a nice red sky… Read More ›
The magnificent abbeys of Yorkshire
The first day of our continuation of The Tour of England, 🏴 and we cross the open border into England’s largest county ….. Yorkshire, the land of Richard III (but not his bones), Geoffrey Boycott England’s greatest ever cricketer (if… Read More ›
Tour of England revitalised
Our Tour of England gets underway again today as we head to the extreme north of our little country for Yorkshire and Northumbria. As usual this is NOT a wine trip on this elongated tour, but rather based on Saxon… Read More ›
Postcard from the Dunkirk beaches …
I have never been to the beaches of Dunkirk before, though my dad spent a few days here in June 1940! Mine is just a quick day trip, including an hour at the small Operation Dynamo Museum en route deeper… Read More ›
