Category: Blog posts
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Chipping Norton
I promised this week I wouldn’t write about London, and so here I am not writing about London. (Although I have still managed to use the word “London” two—er, three—times in the first two…
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London: miscellaneous
So there isn’t really a theme to this post, it’s just “other stuff we did in London when we saw Hamilton”. Also I’m very aware that I was intending this blog to be proving the…
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London: Regent’s Park and Primrose Hill
On Tuesday I went to see Hamilton, which I’d highly recommend (if you haven’t listened to it, shame on you). I am not a theatre blogger, so I’m not going to tell you about that, and…
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Banbury
Finally the trains were working well enough for me to make it to Banbury, the place I tried to write about the day I ended up going to Reading instead. I’ve been to Banbury I…
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Leicester
Back in December, a friend of mine—the same one who suggested the trip to the West Wycombe caves—suggested a trip to follow in the last footsteps of a king. (They have half the good…
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Blog break
This week I’m up north with my family, which means I should have made the blog post during the week, because I knew I wouldn’t have chance at the weekend. Unfortunately I didn’t have…
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London: Kew Gardens
A trip to London again, I know—and this one’s to a fairly standard tourist attraction too, the Royal Botanic Gardens in leafy Kew, so not really the sort of thing I blog about. But…
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West Wycombe
Last week I told you about High Wycombe, which was the first time when writing this that I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to finish a post, and had to resort…
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High Wycombe
Another week, another commuter town—which I went to a year ago today, so this is going to be a challenge to see how much I can remember. This one does actually have a genuinely…
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Milton Keynes
Yeah, so normally I write these to try and persuade you to actually go to these places, but let’s face it, Milton Keynes has a reputation as a place not just where there’s nothing…