This last weekend I’ve spent a wonderful time with very old friends in Sheffield. On Saturday we drove up to Monsal Head up at the top of Monsal Vale in the Peak District (in a sexy BMW 3-series convertible, where the roof automatically separates into several pieces and lowers into the boot – trust me [...]

For the remainder of the week I was in west Wales, near Borth, and we also visited one or two other spots – I particularly enjoyed spending time in the little cove that’s only accessible from a small private road nearby – there’s no sand but I think its beautiful all the same. The spectacular [...]

Apologies for not posting during this week, but unfortunately due to only having access to GPRS speeds out in Wales I’ve had to wait until my return to civilisation to post. I’m just going to share some of the photography from this week with you, and set the scene. So last Sunday and Monday morning [...]

To round out our visit to the southwest we spent the afternoon in Weston Super Mare yesterday. The setting for many of my childhood holidays, this place is timeless (well apart from the fact that the pier has burnt down!) – it’s still full of kiss-me-quick hats, cafes and candy floss. On a really hot [...]

Yesterday we travelled just out of Bristol city centre up the steep hill to Clifton, home to a charming little village and the Clifton suspension bridge, one of Brunel’s engineering feats. Completed in 1864, I’m sure its as spectacular a sight as it was then, majestically spanning the Avon Gorge. It’s breathtaking… While we were [...]

I’m spending this weekend in Bristol, down in the southwest of England. I lived in the city for a year a long, long time ago, and it was interesting visiting it again as a tourist. The city centre has changed a lot – clearly it’s benefited from the regeneration money that’s being flowing into British [...]

What a relief to get out of London for a day. The sun was shining and everything was fine out in deepest Kent (well the London Borough of Bromley these days) on Sunday afternoon. We went over to Down House, the home of Charles Darwin, but arrived a little too late to spend more than [...]