A scour of the internet found an exhibition that I thought would be great fun, "Stephen Jones, Chapeau d'Artiste." Stephen Jones designs...

Upon arrival in Paris, I had an idea of what I wanted to do and set about trying to book tickets. Maybe it's because I've been sewing a...

The Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery is a vast building which is, I'm told, usually filled with wonderful treasures and takes hours to...

We spent time with Bruce's lovely relatives in a town outside of Ghent, Sint-Martens-Latem. There were wonderful meals and lots of...

Our second day in Brussels Bruce spent beer hopping and I started walking. Close to our hotel is the Church of Sainte Catherine. Belgium...

We left our lovely cat sit and headed to Birmingham to catch the train to Euston Station, London. We walked from there to St. Pancras...

Brum - nickname for Birmingham Brummie - nickname for someone from Birmingham. I took the train from Olton into Brum and then walked...

Today we ventured south to Warwickshire in search of history. Our first stop was Warwick Castle. I had visited here 30+ years ago and...

A bus ride through the city takes you to the Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham. The institute owes its...

An hour or so north of Birmingham lies the city of Wolverhampton which is where we headed for a visit to Wightwick Manor. Boarding the...

Our current cat sit is in Solihull, near Birmingham, in the West Midlands. The city of Solihull is lovely, but you have to travel a bit...

I was born in Dartmouth, Massachusetts so, naturally, I was looking forward to visiting Dartmouth, Devon. I had visited about 35 years...

On the banks of the River Plym, on the outskirts of Plymouth, lies Saltram House and Gardens, a National Trust property. It was home to...

A short drive away from Kingsbridge is the village of Dittisham. From there, you can take a ferry across the River Dart to Greenway,...

It was a lovely sunny day so we drove in to Kingsbridge to catch the ferry to Salcombe which departs from the Kingsbridge estuary. It's a...

I'm able to enjoy very long holidays because instead of booking hotels, I house sit or, more accurately, I cat sit. (Message me for more...

Every now and then an exhibition comes along that hits you so viscerally that it's almost overwhelming. Such was the case with "Now You...

After a long day at Kew Gardens yesterday I took it rather easy, just walking around a bit before a scheduled call with a couple for whom...

I think sometimes I underestimate the amount of time it takes to adjust to an 8-hour time difference so was rather shocked to see that I...

This is clearly our British year. We started the year at a cat sit in Ashtead, Surrey, came home for three months, then were back for...