It could be taken as a given with my ancestry and previous life spent in Oxford that I should be predisposed to scoffing at Cambridge. However, since I didn’t row in any regattas in Henley, I’m happy to say I loved it. The grand old buildings, wide spaces and festive…
Taking advantage of the great summer, we hopped over to Berlin for a long weekend taking in the views from aboard bicycles and atop double-decker buses.I love how living here means we can ‘hop over’ to Europe. Still a thrill for this antipodean 😉 We had each bought a Berlin…
Another trip around the sun was celebrated with a weekend in the gorgeous town of Bath – a stately collection of period homes in uniform beige colours, soaked in history and Roman bathwater. We can recommend the Albany Guest House B&B, nice rooms and a great breakfast, run by lovely…
Unless you’ve been under a hypnotist’s spell, compelling you to not know anything about Peru, you’ll have heard of a little jaunt tourists like to tick off their bucket list called the Inca Trail which leads – eventually – to the Inca city Machu Picchu. Having had this item on…
Arequipa is the second largest city in Peru in population terms at least, many of which live in shanty towns on the edge. During the days we spent there we enjoyed fresh juice at the produce market in between being horrified by the whole boiled sheep’s heads and butchers throwing…