Travel

If you follow me on Instagram – especially my side account – you’ll know I look out for the Waverley paddle steamer every summer. It’s the last sea-going paddle steamer in the world!…

My second summer holiday happened at the height of the heatwave, a couple of weeks ago. Lucky for me, everyone came to Helensburgh so I didn’t have to pack or travel, just…

Usually I go and visit my family at Easter but I held out for better weather and picked a fabulous weekend with perfect weather. Here’s what I got up to. Inverness Botanic…

I seem to be making a habit of visiting Edinburgh for my birthday, and getting pretty lucky with the weather too. It was so nice the first day that I went to…

The last of my posts about our Oban trip. Our last main day was supposed to a boat tour but the weather wasn’t ideal so we ended up driving around Mull. Here’s what…

Continuing the posts about our Oban trip. The best thing about visiting Oban, for me, is that I don’t even have to leave the county! Argyll & Bute is a pretty big…

In 2009 we celebrated my dad’s birthday by going to Oban for a week and last month we did the same again! Despite some very changeable weather, we had a great time…

My previous visit to Kew Gardens was in 2008 so it seemed like a good time to go back. I love a big garden and the weather forecast was looking good. Unfortunately,…

I’m so behind on my blogging, thanks to two trips and a nasty illness. Let’s go back a few weeks when I went to London for a mostly-business trip. As soon as…

I had a fun few days Up North for Easter. It was pretty cold and windy so we didn’t get up to anything too exciting but here’s a few photos. It was my mum’s…

Since my birthday was on a Saturday this year, I thought I should go away but not too far since it always snows. So I booked an overnight trip to Edinburgh and…

We had some really lovely weather over Christmas which almost made up for the lack of snow. Here’s a few photos from our winter walks. Here I am as the new monarch…