Blue and green dreams in Antalya, Turkey

The sun-baked pillars rise from the ground, silhouetted against the bluest of skies, as the morning heat starts to rise in intensity. I feel alone…

Brighton and Hove; impressions and the seaside

‘’Ah, dear Brighton, piers, queers and racketeers.”  Noel Coward So here I am in the city that is Brighton and Hove, a place lauded for…

Pride and the Peak District: Dannah Farm Country …

For me, the Peak District has anchored a place in my heart for two very distinct reasons. The first is rather whimsical as it is…

Moor Hall restaurant and rooms, Aughton, Lancashire

Moor Hall is a building with a back story at the beginning of an auspicious new chapter in its life. Moor Hall at Aughton. Pic…

Festive Manchester and the beautiful Principal Hotel

One ordinary Saturday, 20 years ago this year, some IRA terrorists ignited a bomb in Manchester. They created mayhem and loss, a scar that will…

Glorious Fuerteventura (with giraffe)

The animals came in two by two. Then four. You’d be forgiven for thinking that when Noah set off in his ark they shipwrecked on…

A poetic stay at Storrs Hall Hotel on …

“The Lake country is a glorious region, of which I had only seen the similitude in dreams, waking or sleeping…I longed to slip out unseen,…