My second weekend away was to Bourton-on-the-Water in the Cotswolds. As my niece and family live very close to the route, I arranged to stop there for lunch on the Friday – it was a pity I was very late because of queuing for an hour to get through Marlborough, as there were roadworks. I…
Category: Holidays
A Weekend in Sussex
Having had my holiday on “Waterways of Wales” cancelled, I found it very hard to find anything else to book as it was then getting quite late. The best I could manage was 2 weekends away – the first being in Sussex. This was an hf “self-guided walking”. As they say they want to do…
Take a short break – II
Having rather over-done things and had the fall on the Tuesday, I decided to do a shorter walk on the Wednesday and chose one of the routes that are provided. This was a walk round Corfe Castle – seeing it from every direction! I took the car to Corfe and parked in the National Trust…
Take a short break – I
My holidays were cancelled this year but I decided I still needed a break when I wouldn’t have to make meals or do shopping or think about anything much, so I booked 4 nights “Self-guided Walking” at Lulworth Cove. As book-in time was not until 4.0 p.m. on the Monday, I decided to go earlier…
Go on a Calligraphy Course
I have thought for some time that it might be fun to learn calligraphy, so when I saw that hf had a weekend calligraphy course I booked for it. I was concerned that I might have to buy the kit, but the notes said that everything was provided, so that was good. Then the father…
Walking and Sightseeing – St Ives II
There were different places to visit in the second half of my hf holiday in St Ives. The next day, Wednesday, we went by coach to the Geevor Tin Mine. On getting there we were able to leave our bags in a room and then had to pay and get our hard hats. We had…
Walking and Sightseeing – St Ives I
Another hf holiday, but it didn’t start that well as I had booked a 1st Class train ticket by “advanced purchase” and I had to change at Westbury. When I got to Westbury I found that the train I was supposed to get was cancelled! Eventually found a nice man who worked out that I…
“Self-Guided Walking” holiday.
I put this on the end of my Industrial Heritage of Shropshire so as to make it a week away. I wasn’t intending to do that much walking, but I did do more than several other people – who went out in their cars or stayed at the hotel, by the swimming pool! The first…
Industrial Heritage Holiday III – Steam Trains
The third day of the holiday was spent on the Severn Valley Railway. We had two extra people on this day – one who just loved steam trains and the other who had fallen when walking the previous day and hurt her knee and didn’t think that she would be able to do a walk,…
Industrial Heritage Holiday II – Iron
The second day of the holiday was spent in Ironbridge. We started with a quick visit to the museum of the Gorge, where there was an interesting model of how the gorge had been, with ironworks, mines, inclined planes, barges and roadways (with horses and carts – which in the model had no drivers!!). It…