There’s only so much relaxing someone can do (is that true?) so after a couple of days lounging out by the pool, we decided to visit somewhere we hadn’t been before – the mainland! We decided we’d start at Brickell City Centre, then jump on the Metromover and take it from there. My not-so-subtle plan … More Downtown Miami and Brickell
We are not into the exciting, energetic South Beach – sure it’s nice to visit, but when it comes to finding activities to fill our days, we’d much rather have a bit of peace and quiet. Surfside and the surrounding area meets that expectation perfectly, so we went back to the same hotel(ish) for the … More Surfside and the North
What do you think when you read the words “Miami Beach”? Turquoise waves, beautiful sandy beaches, blue skies – am I close? That’s certainly what you get when you Google image search, and is definitely the experience we had both in 2016 and 2017. 2018? Not so much. More like grey skies with some ever-so-slightly … More Miami in the Rain
Onto my next hotel visit – the Christmas gift stay. A couple of Christmases ago, my in-laws gifted us one of those hotel stay gift vouchers which was very generous of them. I went on the website, validated the voucher code (or whatever it is you needed to do) and then didn’t do anything with … More Brooklands Hotel
My second hotel visit of the month – the non-refundable stay. A few months ago, my Mum and I discovered the Hilton London Bankside – it was perfectly located for our impromptu shopping trip, exceptionally well appointed, and not stupidly expensive. So when Husband and I decided to stay overnight after the Flight of the … More Hilton London Bankside
OK, where did February go? I had all these posts planned in my head, but none appeared to have made it to my blog. Normal service will resume, but first I want to reminisce for a bit. I noticed on Twitter this week that the Room for London had reached the end of it’s life on … More A Room for London
Editing these photos just now has filled me with such longing for this beautifully desolate area of the country. I don’t think there’s really anything else I can say about Dungeness which has been said by a thousand other people – it’s stark, it’s barren, it feels like the end of the world. I loved … More Let’s go to Dungeness
We like staying in weird places. In the past few years, we’ve stayed in a Pineapple, a 200 year old fort, and a 16th century Scottish tower house. So when looking for somewhere to stay for our winter mini-break, I typed various synonyms for “quirky” into Google to see what I could find. And I … More Fog Signal Building, Dungeness
We did a lot of walking during our 5 days in New York. A lot. But that is part of the reason why I enjoy the city so much. Once you get away from the insanity in Midtown, it becomes an entirely different trip. There was a bit of shopping – Husband had a spree … More New York in July – the everything else
We hadn’t aimed to eat at (mostly) entirely new places on this trip, it just happened by chance. We’d hoped to have at least one fancy meal but the timings didn’t work out, and it was too hot to eat a lot of food but I would 100% go back to every place we visited. … More New York in July – where we ate
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