This weekend was a 'Cheeky Boys' trip, the chance to catch up, have a chat, laugh at some jokes (most of which we will have heard before), drink plenty and hopefully enjoy some fine food. The format is quite simple really, so with a Friday afternoon rendezvous at Birmingham Airport there was a chance for some food and drink(s) before boarding our Flybe service to Belfast City Airport, a short hop of around 45 minutes across the Irish Sea. A rapid taxi into the c...

This trip to France was to be our last excursion out of the UK before the second date slated for Brexit. What will happen in the future is a bit of an unknown, but needless to say that our longer term plans for use of our house in France will likely be impacted. We are not impressed. Our long weekend started by travelling to Southend on Sea in Essex on the Wednesday evening, where we spent the night at the Park Inn overlooking the famous pier. It was dark when...

Flying from Luton at 21.05 with Wizzair meant a late night or, more correctly, an early morning arrival into the city of Gdansk. The taxi from the airport was certainly 'fast' and we were soon checking into the Hotel Królewski that overlooks the historical waterfront area of the city. Gdansk is a fabulous place to visit, and as both of us have been here before (numerous times actually) it meant that we could just to wander and enjoy the place . . . . that said ...

We were headed to the south west of England to have a weekend break on the English Riviera. We eventually arrived into Torquay just after 21.00 having missed our planned connection at Newton Abbot. Our B&B was a 10 minute walk from the station and about the same distance from the seafront. It was a pretty good location, and at £117 for two nights including breakfast it was definitely a step up from our previous UK break in Morecambe. The room was however ve...

This is the first of two weekends taking in two different British seaside resorts. This weekend it was Morecambe in Lancashire, and this will followed by Torquay in Devon at the end of July. Arriving at Morecambe by train you feel like you are in the middle of an out of town retail shopping complex. The original terminus station for the railway was almost on the seafront and still exists as a pub, KFC and live music venue, but the modern soulless station sits a ...