The North Yorkshire Chronicles, Part One: Cold Spring up North

The North Yorkshire Chronicles, Part One: Cold Spring up North

We have just arrived in North Yorkshire for a week’s well-deserved holiday. After meticulously packing what seemed like the entire kitchen into the car for a week in a pet-friendly cottage, we set off for the 6-hour drive. The doggies were settled all snug in 

Oh, my Aiken Feet

Oh, my Aiken Feet

The Courtauld Gallery in London’s collection ranges from the Renaissance to the 20th century and includes a world-famous group of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings with masterpieces by Manet, Monet, Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin, amongst others.

Wintry Walks

Wintry Walks

In the UK we can walk, hike, ramble or ride horses across what is often private land, through a system of Public Footpaths and Public Bridleways.

Butterflies Fluttering By: Toad in the Hole

Butterflies Fluttering By: Toad in the Hole

After a day observing butterflies at Magdalen Hill Down Nature Reserve in Hampshire, what better than Toad in the Hole for a quick Thermomx-based dinner?