A few people have commented on why I spend so much time writing this blog. It's not only to share with fiends but because I've found over the years that writing a blog embeds the memories of the holiday more clearly. I also use it to put together photobooks for each of our holidays. The ones for Italy and France also contain massive numbers of recipes. For the UK, I used to record recipes for things like Eccles Cakes and Colston Buns or Portland Cake. This time, ...

It's Sunday morning (this was 4 days ago, it's now Wednesday. Addendum it's 5:30am and I'm sitting on the couch when a mountain hare hops up to the floor to ceiling glass window to say hello. I'd seen one yesterday, but he/she just hopped across the lawn without stopping to say hello. This one came right up to the window not two metres away from me and stared at me for some time.) Back to Sunday … we all decided to go for a walk down the lane we had dri...

The advantage in writing my blogs days after the event is that I can make corrections or insert new things we have learned. Fort example, last week we were in North West Herefordshire. If you ever visit, we can save you some embarrassment. They don't pronounce the letter "o" in the beginning of names such as Leominster and Woebley. So they are Leminster and Webley. How Wooloomooloo would suffer under the Herefords. Where are we today. Oh! That's r...

I don't know if you noticed, however there was no blog n the 24th June. OMG, we must have had a day off. So that means I only have to catch up from the 30th to today which is the 4th July, so just 5 days. As today is also a day off ( kinda), I could give it my best shot. I also forgot something when writing about our day at Pembridge. I remembered the two trucks meeting head on in the village, however I managed to block this memory. Cheryl is still trying to...

News Headline: June has just been confirmed as the hottest on record. This was our last day at Kington and we had left it for washing the hair and then visiting Pembridge. Pembridge because it is the longest of the Black & White trail villages. It's a ribbon village with only a couple of side streets in the centre. How long? Well Ches in the passenger seat took 1 min and 20sec of video footage. That was the plan. Because Ches had failed to remind me...