by Neal | 14 Aug 2012 | Slider, Vacations
We travelled up to Middleham to stay at the White Swan Hotel (www.whiteswanhotel.co.uk) and firstly called at Newby Hall (http://www.newbyhallandgardens.com/). Newby Hall has fantastic gardens as can be seen in the photos, and a very fine Georgian hall. The hall...
by Neal | 8 Jun 2012 | Vacations
Forgot to mention in the last post, Anne had only said on Wednesday evening that she’s seen lots of Canada Geese around, but no chicks. Well, that was remedied when this lot trudged across the rose garden area at Kew the following day!!
by Neal | 8 Jun 2012 | Vacations
We’ve just got back from a wonderful stay in London. The main reason for the trip was to listen to Anna Netrebko, the wonderful Russian soprano. She was leading a Gala at The Royal Albert Hall with her partner baritone Erwin Schrott and tenor Ramon Vargas. We...
by Neal | 9 Oct 2011 | Days out, Vacations
With our unexpected day in Yorkshire as opposed to Cheshire, we decided to visit Harewood House (www.harewood.org); somewhere we’d not been for a while, and when we did it was in the winter and we’d not gone in the house. The day was drizzly again but not half as bad...
by Neal | 8 Oct 2011 | Vacations
For our ‘post open evening’ weekend away we wanted to visit Tatton Park as we’ve not been there outside the RHS flower show. For this we wanted to stay in Knutsford which is right next door. The place to stay we picked was the Rose and Crown just 2 minutes walk from...
by Neal | 18 Aug 2011 | Vacations
It chucked it down today! A nice big blob of rain in the south-west of England. But that wasn’t going to stop us enjoying the last day of our holiday. We wanted to visit Batsford Arboretum (http://www.batsarb.co.uk). This is a really large collection of trees and...
