Walking in front of two insipidly dressed undergraduates one day in Cambridge, eavesdropping on their intellectually baffling conversation it suddenly occurred to me why Cambridge is the way Cambridge is. You possibly wouldn’t pick up on the disappointments of this town if you only had one day in Cambridge because it’s easy to be impressed…
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20 Awesome Weekend Break Ideas In The UK
UK WEEKEND AWAY IDEAS If you’re anything like us you try to pepper your main summer holiday with a sprinkle of fun UK weekend breaks every year, right? A Cheeky weekend away to unwind. And, when you’re asking the question ‘where can I go for a weekend away?’ U.K.’s answers are endless and we never…
Exploring Spitalfields And Brick Lane, London
Exploring Spitalfields And Brick Lane, London London is not a city, rather a collection of little towns and villages, like Spitalfields and Brick Lane, patchworked together like an American quilt. Nowhere other than London will you encounter in one space a collection of people from so many walks of life both culturally and socially. The…
Five Reasons To Visit Nottingham
Should Nottingham Be On Your ‘English City Bucket List’? Nottingham receives over 300,000 tourists every year but it lags way behind more popular destinations like York, Birmingham and Leeds. Every now and then it inches into the limelight like a shy 5-year-old in her first play – whether that be from a new Robin Hood…
Parks In Nottingham – Which One’s Are Worth Your Picnic?
Parks In Nottingham – Our Top Picks… Maybe you’re a tourist in Nottingham, wanting to find some green space? Or maybe you’re a local and just don’t venture beyond your immediate town that often? Whatever, it’s Summer and we should all be making the most of these patches of turf that this fine city has…
Things To See In Chester
Things To See In Chester Never before have I ever encountered so many computer geeks wearing Star Wars hoodies in one place! Before our weekend trip I had visions of Chester being a glamorous city set to the back-drop of old Tudor homesteads and ladies with stationery faces that lunch in boutique eating establishments – perhaps…
Visit Clumber Park, Nottingham – A Fine Day Out!
A DAY TRIP TO NATIONAL TRUST CLUMBER PARK NOTTINGHAM Visiting Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire A tunnel of lofty Lime trees greet you as soldiers, and like a Lilliputian under the belly of a centipede, we drove beneath the giant green canopy towards Clumber Park in Nottingham. The Clumber Park National Trust estate was once owned by…
Nottingham – A Family Mini-Break
Is Nottingham Worthy Of A Mini-Break with Kids? Parking itself right in the middle of the country, Nottingham definitely gets 10/10 for location – only 2 hours from London or Manchester, a mere 3 from Newcastle or Bristol, what’s your excuse not to make a trip? Recently awarded a UNESCO City of Literature and named…
