Adventures, road trips, music & gigs.
These are the HPB venues we have stayed at so far….
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It’s my first time exploring this region with Emma. We shall be back! Four days is nowhere near enough time to do anything other than scratch the surface! DAIRY COTTAGE – BOYNTON HALL (NEAR BRIDLINGTON) Perched on the edge of the Boynton Hall estate is ….read more
This was our first visit to this central region of the Austrian Alps, just a 90 minute drive south of Salzburg. Being so early in the season, a ski holiday was always going to be a bit of a gamble, but on balance it proved ….read more
Even at this time of year, when many coastal towns have shut up shop for the winter, it’s easy to see why Mallorca is so popular. It was my first visit here, so my expectations were shaped a little by social media: a mix of ….read more
A trip with my parents. The last time I visited South Wales with my parents was back in the late 1970s, when I was just a child. On that occasion, we stayed in a caravan, and it rained solidly for an entire week. Not this ….read more
Menai straights and Beaumaris . This trip to Anglesey (Ynys Môn), in North Wales (Cymru), brought us to an isolated Manor House called Henllys, a few miles from the Menai Bridge, tucked away in the hills above the quaint little village of Beaumaris We checked ….read more
A few months ago an old friend, Tony, got in touch to say he’s coming back to the UK for a few weeks and fancied a wee trip ‘up north’, possibly encompassing Scotland and the English Lakes. So Cumbria, The Trossachs, Glencoe, Isle of Skye ….read more
Being only 150 miles south of Cornwall this place is so incredibly close, yet surprisingly, given how often I travel to France, this is my first time here. We stayed in the south west region of Brittany, a village called Plogastel-Saint-Germain, in the historic region ….read more
A weekend away in a country house at Sibton Park, Kent. This HPB location is tucked away in the countryside and ideally located to explore the many historic castles and villages of the area. We booked it a while ago in order to give Doreen, ….read more
We spent the week exploring the remote and unspoilt eastern corners of Andalusia and its neighbouring region, Murcia. This part of Spain has much to offer, from its Moorish influence and Roman ruins to its mountains ranges and beautiful beaches, which rival any in the ….read more
This short four day trip saw us head for Paris via the stunning town of Arras, where we stopped a couple of hours for a late morning coffee and brunch. Arras is only an hour south of Calais and so was ideal for a leisurely ….read more
What better way to spend Hogmanay than with a ceilidh in a Gothic/Baronial style castle by the side of a Loch, in the Highlands of Scotland? It was bitterly cold with snow still on the ground when we arrived at Tigh Mor, the log fire ….read more
We have just spent the last two weeks exploring southwest France 🇫🇷.Our destination, a roomy Gîte (HPB site) just north of the Dordogne river, near the village of St-Felix-de-Villadeix, was closer both in time and distance than the area I visited in the highlands of ….read more