Author Archives: Martin

Bristol gets better and better. This weekend it’s the Harbour Festival. Just an excuse for boat people to get together and the rest of us to eat and drink a bit more than usual. Good fun, though, and good weather.

Ashton Court, the mansion and park, is a fantastic resource for the city of Bristol, and I/we have been walking in it, along with various much-missed dogs, for decades now. We still visit it often, today on the “Festival Way” … Continue reading →

A couple of nights overlooking Caerfai Bay near St Davids. We also cycled to Abereiddy beach, a few miles up the coast, and the previously-undiscovered (by us) “Blue Lagoon”.

last year we took our cycles to Bruges for one of the wettest weeks of the Summer (pictures HERE). We thought we’d try again, but, just in case, took the car (via Dunkirk) and stayed in a hotel this time. We … Continue reading →

We walked up the Brecon Hills from Abergavenny. Fantastic scenery, from the green valleys and woods below to the more barren and very windy peak.

We had a crab craving, so went to Beer, on the Devon coast for lunch in a pub. Then we walked to Branscombe for tea and cake. It’s hard, retirement.

A pleasant, and flat, cycle along this canal in Somerset, with the added interest of (to scale) representations of the planets of the solar system along the way. This is Uranus, “A Giant Ball Of Frozen Noxious Gasses With Strange … Continue reading →

Wendy and Graham visiting, so had a walk among the bluebells and boats(?) in Leigh Woods on the south of the Avon Gorge.

Fabulous Devon gardens, created over twenty years or so by Alasdair Forbes. These gardens are designed following a Greek myth theme. Very interesting to be taken around by historian Alastair himself.

A few days staying in a pub in Woodhall Spa in Lincolnshire.