Stories from travels around my home country
The Carlisle to Settle railway – or Settle to Carlisle railway if you prefer – is the most iconic train route in England. Only The Jacobite in Scotland (aka the ‘Hogwarts Express’) can surely complete when it comes to sweeping panoramas and stunning viaducts. In …
I lived and worked in London for a number of years, yet I admit that I have not visited every one of these hidden London gems. This is my first collaborative post on this site, and in compiling it I asked other travel website owners …
A series of novels set in Scotland Street, Edinburgh Alexander McCall Smith’s ‘44 Scotland Street‘ Edinburgh series of novels are such a satisfying read. At the most shallow level, they’re a little like reading a gossipy magazine, because you find out who’s up to what …
My Bay It began with a purple Beetle I feel incredibly lucky, and a teensy little bit proud, too, that I can write this. I’ve loved Volkswagen Beetles and Campers ever since school, when some lucky guy a year or two above me drove a …
I was an Inbetweener What do I know about Newcastle in the 80s and 90s, you may ask? I grew up in a small town in the North East, and during my teens that small town was no longer enough to satisfy my hunger for …