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Category: Great Britain

  • Cardiff Review of the RHS flower show

    Cardiff Review of the RHS flower show

      This weekend we visited Cardiff, the capital of Wales. It is a short hop across the Severn bridge from Bristol and we were able to catch a bus from Bristol to Newport and change for Cardiff. We wanted to go to the RHS flower show which is held annually in Bute Park next to…

  • Visiting Slimbridge Wetland centre

    Visiting Slimbridge Wetland centre

    Nothing suggests spring to me more than seeing downy ducklings on a lake and one of our favourite places to go at this time of year is Slimbridge Wetland centre near Gloucester.   Click here to find out more I love to wander along the well made trails or try to spot new arrivals from…

  • The New Room Bristol and John Wesley

    The New Room Bristol and John Wesley

    Did you know Charles and John Wesley built the very first Methodist chapel here in Bristol? A lot of people visit Broadmead, the shopping district in the middle of Bristol without realising that the chapel exists.   But you can discover it opposite the Galleries shopping centre. The Horsefair entrance is close to the arcade.…

  • Walking tour of Georgian Bath

    Walking tour of Georgian Bath

    I belong to a walk in the past, history walking group and last Sunday we explored Georgian Bath.  Bath which is a UNESCO world heritage site still markets itself as a Georgian city.  In the 18th century the aristocracy flocked here to take the waters, to gamble or to find a suitable spouse.   Jane…

  • Visiting Bletchley Park

    Visiting Bletchley Park

    A local college offers free study weekends for the “young at heart” over fifties.  I am not sure we qualify as young at heart but I liked the sound of one of the activities on offer a functional Mathematics study day and a visit to Bletchley Park home of the wartime code breakers. I very…

  • Discovering Marlborough doors

    Discovering Marlborough doors

    A while ago I came across a blog link party featuring posts about doors from all over the world. At first I thought it was a rather nerdish subject but then I became intrigued and decided to see if I could write a suitable post. The trouble was the more I looked the more difficult…

  • Bath a brief history

    Bath a brief history

    I was happy to find out that Bath would be the venue for our February walk in the past history walk.  I grew up between Bristol and Bath and my father went to school in the city so I have watched it change over the years.  Jane Austen would probably recognise the centre but there…