Being an unashamed geek and at the age of 48 who still gets excited at the thought of fossils and all things dinosaur (my favourite is a pachycephalosaurus),…
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 Gough’s cave. Cheddar Gorge…
Our first full day on our week off has been spent exploring Exmoor. Not sure what we were expecting, apart from rain, grey skies and another probable lacklustre…
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 ultimate millennial hashtag. You…
The last time we went to Wales, we got ourselves into a bit of a pickle tripping over tricky tongue twisting Welsh words. So in order not to…
Back from the big smoke for our anniversary break in London. Originally, this was supposed to a cheap break and turned out to be anything but. Life in…
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 excitement, crack houses or…
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 bit of a cheap…
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 time for crisp colourful…
On the way back down from our adventures in the Orkney Islands, we’ve had several nights in a rustic lodge near Plockton. Plockton is a gorgeous village where…
Our Orcadian adventure now captured, partially at least, in a travel video. Just a bit of fun using a mixture of a Canon 200D and our very basic…
Following on from the earlier post of our Adventures in Orkney- What You Need To Know and for those who are absolute suckers of big erect stones (schoolboy…
The road to Orkney is a long one. It doesn’t look far on a map but it’s a 12 hour drive and far more than the 500 miles…
We’re spending 24 hours in Liverpool. We’ve mainly come to see the Terracotta Warriors at the World Museum but seeing as we are spending the night here we…
OK, let’s get this out of the way. This holiday is not what it was supposed to be. We had hired a cameprvan, a classic VW to nomadically…
Eeee by eck. We’ve a couple of days off from that nasty four letter word so we’ve come up to the North Yorkshire Dales (t’yorkshire) for some extreme…
I can count on two fingers the amount of times I’ve been to Blackpool, both ended in tears. Once in 1977 at a Dr Who exhibition, I ran out…
Eye spy with the London Eye, something beginning with C. Wrong. It’s the Capital and we are in it, jolly old London town. When a man is tired…
We’re feeling the the undeniably pull of attraction to visit Woolsthorpe Manor deep in the rural Lincolnshire countryside, a site of scientific interest for it is the birthplace, family…
The Northumberland Coast, a few days of extreme dog walking adventures in England’s least populated county at the edge of the empire in Northumberland, along the coast of…