Europe 2026

Reclined on comfortable lounges following a delightful meal in the long, long northern evening, we each take time to record the events of the day.… Read More »Ready

“Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.” – Ma Jian We have our airport overnighter… Read More »Moving on

The day before we left York, we visited the barley shed or rice barn or some such thing and Yorvick, the Viking museum. In the… Read More »Order of Little Bedlam

Canonisation of saints a hundred years posthumously assured obfuscation of evidence. It’s a useful blogging model. Not that we’re dead, but who can remember what… Read More »Godric

Cold, overcast and windy today. It’s a 30-minute walk as the crow flies from Shincliffe, where we’re staying, to Durham Cathedral and an hour and… Read More »Hogwarts

Heading South from Haltwhistle we cross the highway and immediately climb – up into the Pennines. In moments, it’s as if a brown knitted patchwork… Read More »That’s grouse

William George Armstrong, one of the owners and inhabitants of Bamburgh Castle, which we visited a few days ago, and 1st Baron of Cragside, is… Read More »Nothing like it

We seem to have settled into a travel routine that’s not too rushed and not too settled. A week in a town and we move… Read More »Out and about

As far as plans go, it was a good one. Drive 15 minutes to Lakeside on Windermere, catch the boat to Bowness-on-Windermere and walk to… Read More »Lakeside