Saturday 28th September, 2024 – Nunnington, Wombleton Distance driven: 174.4 miles,Time at the wheel: 4 hours 05 minutesHeiland coos spotted: 0 We’d been intending to do the mighty North Coast 500 road trip for some time (certainly since before the pandemic struck) and so this year we decided it was time that we finally got…
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Travel/Food 2023 – Yorkshire
Saturday 7th/Sunday 8th October, 2023 – Wombleton, Marton, Nunnington Back in the UK, and we made a weekend trip to Yorkshire complete with an overnight stay. The impetus behind the trip was to see our friends Richard and Lindsey and to try out their new culinary venture, the Plough Inn, in the delightfully named village…
Staycation 2021 – Day 7 (Stanwick Lakes, Deene Park)
Wednesday, 23rd September 2021 – Stanwick Lakes, Deene Park Wednesday we were in pretty much the same territory as on Tuesday. There are a number of castles, stately homes and such over towards Corby, along the Nene Valley. We were planning on visiting another one we’d never been to (and in fact until I started…
Food 2020 – The Oxford Kitchen, Oxford
Saturday, 29th February 2020 – The Oxford Kitchen, Oxford We haven’t been to the Oxford Kitchen since it got its current – and much deserved – Michelin star, partly because we’ve not been in Oxford much, and partly because as a result of the award it’s a lot harder to get a table now than…
Food 2020 – Pompette, Oxford
Thursday, 27th February 2020 – Pompette, Oxford, Alsatian Wine Dinner Sometimes, when doing other things, you blunder across something unexpected but welcome. Such was the case in Oxford the other weekend, when we went to a talk at Blackwell’s bookshop and then needed to find lunch afterwards. There was a place in Summertown that had…
Food 2020 – Pompette, Oxford
Saturday 8th February, 2020 – Pompette, Oxford Oxford is a strange city in food terms (not as dire as Cambridge, though it remains a mystery given the amount of money washing around as to why precisely there aren’t many good and/or high end restaurants in either city). However, of late Oxford has improved considerably, with…
Food 2020 – Akasaka, Milton Keynes
Monday, 3rd February 2020 – Akasaka, Milton Keynes We had a date to go to the theatre in Milton Keynes, as we had tickets to see Sandi Toksvig on her “National Trevor” tour. As Lynne was working in the office that day (which is in MK), we decided I would pick her up from the…
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