Adventures, road trips, music & gigs.
This is a category of stuff I have done in-between travels, but which doesn’t have a natural home.
We decided not to head off travelling this weekend, but to stick around and explore some local haunts here in London. It’s handy living in a city where so much is going on. KINGS CROSS SUMMER SOUNDS Our first stop on Friday evening was Coal ….read more
Just a short non-travel post to record my mother’s 80th birthday celebration. We initially stopped overnight at my house in Southampton before continuing on to Barton on Sea to meet up with my parents on this gorgeous Sunday at the beginning of August. After a ….read more
So here we are in Sheffield, exploring both the grassroots Fringe and the more commercial Tramlines Festival music events. Quite how this happened I put down to serendipity, or perhaps the universe choosing a path towards new experiences, a concept I’ve become more accepting of ….read more
BBQ night @ Martyn and Julie’s We’ve had a few abortive attempts to get together with these wonderful people, so nothing was going to get in the way of this weekend’s get-together. Not even a near-20-degree drop in the daytime temperature from last weekend, and ….read more
Looking over towards Greenwich from our vantage point on the Isle of Dogs, we decided to head there for the evening after spending a day on the Wharf with Lofty, one of Emma’s good friends from Lancaster University. It was perfect weather for catching up ….read more
Given I only had one empty page left in my passport (for entry and exit stamps) and it was fast approaching it’s expiry date, I thought it wise to get the thing changed before I fell foul of an airport official… So off to London’s ….read more
This is the BIG 6-0 year for many in my school year – including Mark James! His wife, Jo, had arranged a surprise gathering for friends and family in the Pen and Pencil, a bar in the Northern Quarter. So Emma and I travelled up ….read more
It’s been a relatively quiet Christmas for us this year, less partying with friends and more time with Emma’s family than ever before. Toby had travelled back from Melbourne, Australia with Mia. Ben rocked up from his university base in Cornwall, and Hannah (now living ….read more
The first week of December proved to be very busy indeed, so I thought I’d consolidate our time back in the South of England into a single blog entry. Well, it was travels of sorts! Big screen movie night (Odeon Bloomsbury) The Holiday. One of ….read more
A lovely short trip to Barton on Sea to visit my parents at their home on the south coast. We arrived without much notice, but as ever, were warmly welcomed and spent the afternoon in the garden catching up. Before sunset we headed up the ….read more
Not exactly travels, but it was a lovely experience in a county we usually travel through to go to other places. Sarah and Phil got married in a quaint place near the village of Mickleham, a venue called the Burford Bridge Hotel, along the Mole ….read more