Being an unashamed geek and at the age of 48 who still gets excited at the thought of fossils and all things dinosaur (my…
Rain is forecast, lots of it. So we’ve tried to tactically dodge the worst of the weather with a jaunt to Cheddar Gorge and…
Our first full day on our week off has been spent exploring Exmoor. Not sure what we were expecting, apart from rain, grey skies…
The realities of van life and life on the road laid bare before you. Having spent a whole 3 nights days in a campervan…
For some, Van Life #VanLife maybe just another one of those travel fads, as cliched as backpacking in Thailand, either way, it’s probably the…
We’ve had to let little Billy go today (24th October). Small cat, big heart, big mouth, big personality, huge loss. Our little lap buddy…
Jack Lousma, aeronautical engineer, astronaut, pilot, politician. That’s quite a career, joining the United States Marine Corps in 1959 before being selected as an…
Well it might be over 700 years old with a layout as lawless as an open plan prison riot, (let’s not forget the funfair…
The last time we went to Wales, we got ourselves into a bit of a pickle tripping over tricky tongue twisting Welsh words. So…
Back from the big smoke for our anniversary break in London. Originally, this was supposed to a cheap break and turned out to be…
We’re in London to see the Stanley Kubrick exhibition at the Design Museum. Its a collection over 700 items from his films, and we’re…
Bond in Motion at London Film Museum is a collection of over 100 original vehicles and artefacts from 24 James Bond films reserved for…
Now I’m stood on the edge of a bridge ready to jump off, with a crowd of onlookers ready to fair me well on…
I’m not sure the world is prepared enough to see me in a skin tight wetsuit, but it’s about to happen. Sorry, but it’s…
We’ve gone glamping in Grantham, glamorous camping. Our first glamping v camping comparison. We’ve both done a fair bit of camping in our time,…
We’ve been boating on the Norfolk Broads and only crashed the boat once. You can’t say that the Norfolk Broads is renowned for its…
Wars are rarely, if ever, civil. Civil wars especially, rip countries apart, tear towns apart, turn brother against brother, where muskets mean military warfare,…
Modern life is rubbish, so we’ve come to the woods to get back to basics with a bit of bushcraft. This is the sort…
Gennady Padalka is the very definition of starman. The Russian cosmonaut has commanded the International Space Station (ISS) four times, completed 10 spacewalks, flown…
We visited all the best tourist sites in Paris so you don’t have to…. and we loved every minute of it. To be honest,…
We’ve been Go Karting at Teamworks Mansfield. I am the crappiest driver I know, what the hell do I know about cars, I drive…
This is the dead centre of Paris, we’re gone 65 feet underground to stare death in the face, an underground labyrinth of death, these…
Today, we’re going on Zombie Apocalypse Training. You read that right. The way I see it, you have two choices, you can join the…
A quick trip to Derby to see the Leonardo Da Vinci drawings at Derby Museum as part of special exhibition with drawings form the…
We’ve come to Yorkshire Wildlife Park, all because Mrs Cook wants to go somewhere warm this year on holiday like Kenya and being a…
Wanting to get some relief from the hell that is surviving Christmas, we thought it might be an idea to head to the Nottingham…
You will have seen photos, you will have seen documentaries, you may have been taught in school. Some people will be compelled to visit here,…
We’re in Poland’s second city spending four days in the quaint, cultural, crazy Krakow for city break. A curious mix of communist, medieval and…
We live in a country where shooting guns is considered uncommon, unless you are the estates gamekeeper, in the army or a criminal intent…
Autumn, the days are short, the nights are drawing in and there’s a chill in the air that signals the change of season. It’s…