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France

I’ve been lucky enough to own property in France for almost 11 years. Back in 2013 I was made redundant and that summer, I invested some of the money into a small apartment. This provided… 

English Countryside

We live in a town with a population of 97,000 people just north of London. Although the town is an urban area we are minutes from the countryside. What’s more we are probably no further… 

Diary

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When I’m travelling, I like to keep a hand written diary of the places we visit and things we do. This is partly because I tend to forget some of the finer details of towns… 

Contrast

The Sinful Sunday prompt for April is high contrast. I’m going to be honest here and tell you that this very image appeared in black and white back in January last year. But this colour… 

Cocktails

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One of the things we love to do when away is to find a suitably swanky place for drinks and most especially cocktails. I’m rather partial to a martini, a mojito or a Pina colada,… 

Budapest

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My plan for this year’s Blogging from A-Z challenge is to focus on my travels. Over the lifetime of this blog I’ve visited many places home and abroad. I’ve often featured photos of either or… 

All sorts of problems

Life has been ticking along nicely. More than nicely in fact since I’m just back from a very lovely trip to central Europe. I’ll write more about that very soon. First though the problems, which…