Good Friday arrives, and sadly we have to leave Holyhead, a sit that has become one of our favourite, not least because of our charge Oslo – he has made everything so easy, even though his running over rocks meant an unexpected trip to the vets – just to be on the safe side. Oh…

Saturday – and Annabel has the castle bug – early breakfast to beat the traffic on the Menai bridge, and we get to Caernarfon about 10:30am. Caernarfon Castle is a fanstic example of castle building, and a lot of it remains intact – it is easy to imagine living in the building during its use…

Tuesday, and the weather has turned sunny 🙂 so we decide to take the recommendation of walking from the house, along the coast path, to, The White Eagle – a local pub, which apparently serves good food and local ales. With blue sky, blue sea, a clear view of Snowdonia in the distant – and…

A bit of exploring today, as we ventured to the Menai straight – to look at Telford’s and Stephenson’s bridges. There are so many pages on the web about these bridges, that I will just share a few photos – the history, and sad fire that destroyed Sephenson’s bridge can easily online.

Trearddur bay is a lovely location to explore, with sheltered coves, easy to climb rocks, and lovely sandy beaches – the history makes it’s own tale – apparently a cemetery was situated on one of the beaches, (easy to dig I guess). Monday in Holy Island, and the house owners leave about midday – and…

Holyhead – what a beautiful location, even if the town itself is sadly showing what are now becoming the familiar signs of deprivation – like so many towns we are seeing on our tour – if the high-street is to survive, surely something needs to change! Anyway – we arrived on Holy Island, Anglesey having…

Saturday evening – no moon – we are in the kitchen, dining hut, and two odd eyes come to the window – staring in at Annabel and I – a stray had ventured into the farm and was searching around – further back in the dark, another two eyes stare – we have two strays.…

14th March, and with the return of Jolly’s owners – it is time for us to set off to the next location, which is just outside Swindon, near Highworth – in old English, Warde, (enclosure). Sir John Betjeman described Highworth – Highworth is an ancient hill top market town situated on the edge of the…

Been one of those months where the weather won, rain, rain and rain – hence a summary of our stay in Woking. Our home has been a large house on the outskirts of Horsell common, with a swimming pool, large garden and beautiful lounge, kitchen and dining area. Sat on the outskirts of a nature…

Woking has not been a total story of rain. We managed a few trips out, two to the local theatre to see ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong‘ and ‘Cluedo‘, both worth a watch – on Saturday 9th we made a day trip to Brooklands Museum. Brooklands Museum This is a museum for anyone interested in transport,…