Category Archives: travel
Totem Pole
Over the weekend, we went camping at Abbey Home Farm in Wiltshire. On arrival, the field was empty apart from a Dutch family with a large orange tent, nestled into the hedge. We chose a spot near the totem pole, … Continue reading
Derbyshire and Points North
We were away; you probably didn’t notice. After the disastrous family Christmas of a couple of years ago, my Mum bravely rented a cottage for us all, to celebrate her 60th birthday. It was near Ashbourne, itself a bit of … Continue reading
Return to Armpit
This weekend we’re going to visit my mum. Regular readers will be aware of how much I loathe and detest the town I lived in from April 1983 until I left for university. At one point in recent years, I … Continue reading
Party in the Parc
Years gone by, I would turn up my nose at the very idea of spending nights in a place like Center Parcs. That’s a holiday for people who don’t want to get Out There, that is. Lazy and unimaginative, I … Continue reading
Tamar
This is a companion piece to a similarly-themed article on Pete’s site, which, all things being equal, should be published at roughly the same time. We have not read each other’s entries before publishing, and have taken care not to … Continue reading