My great first staycation in 8 months! It was exciting to take a journey of a couple of hours over the Pennines to one of my favourite pl...

If you visited this field in 1998, you would have seen a bleak area of potatoes and barley fields that stretched for miles across the hor...

Where the Rainbow Hit Earth - A most beautiful, colourful Norwegian garden, on an island with a white sandy beach and my ultimate garden ...

Midsommar 2020

If you are in the Conwy area of North Wales in the spring, lucky you! This time last year I was so lucky to spend a day strolling around ...

This time last year, May 2019, I was here in Catalonia, Spain….Jardins de Cap Roig In the northwest corner of the Mediterranean is the su...

January got no respect from me! I've been hating it this year. The damp, grey and eternally dark days made me so lethargic, together with...

Winter can be a wonderful time to visit France especially over the New Year period. January was mild, sunny, wide blue skies with a hint ...

December 13th is Santa Lucia, one of the most cherished celebrations in Scandinavia. Sweden was the first country in the Nordic region to...

Whitby is a place for all seasons complete with dramatic, changing landscapes. It nestles in the iconic Yorkshire heritage coastline surr...

June is a wonderful time to visit the Cumbrian Lake District, Kendal was my perfect place for a week long birthday celebration. About 10 ...

The Tiled Hall Café in the Leeds Art Gallery is the perfect setting for a lunch break, morning breakfast or just a quiet space to relax. ...

Today its Midsummer, the longest day of the year, and an especially magical time in the Nordic countries and cause for celebration. The Å...

You may have noticed something of a radio silence here in recent weeks. This was partly for some really nice reasons, and also there is t...

Loving all foodie things Scandi, I’m excited to have found Lotte the Baker in York! Lotte has started a small batch organic Scandi bakery...

Walmgate, one of the oldest streets in York is an interesting jumble of buildings from different periods and now home to innovative and t...

I must admit, before I revisited Scandinavia last year I had never heard of the Åland Islands. That is the wonderful thing about travel, ...

Stockholm is the city of fourteen islands, the so-called “Venice of the North,” and is the home to one of Europe’s best-preserved old tow...

Here is yet another highlight of my cruise to the islands and cities of Scandinavia – Bornholm. The picturesque island of Bornholm is a w...

Europe has endless possibilities of places to explore, sights to see and delicious foods to taste and my favourite way to get a true sens...