Just popping back to Cornwall today, to take you to the Old Post Office in Tintagel… This traditional Cornish Longhouse started off life some 600 years ago as a Manor house here. You can’t really miss it in thanks to a couple of reasons, its distinctive wavy roof caused by gentle subsidence, and the […]
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Inspecting Lyme Hall
A forty-five minute drive from our base near Curbar Edge, lies Lyme Hall. This vast (once sporting) Estate on the very edge of the Peaks was once home to the Legh Family, and is well looked after by the National Trust today. Used as a film/TV setting on many an occasion, it is probably most […]
An Austrian New Year…
New Year can be a funny old time of year as an Expat – with many friends either travelling or busy with visiting guests. More often than not it can be – well, quiet… So after last New Year’s Eve that could only be described as a bit of a damp squib (a little […]
Log Cabin Life – Carinthia
We have stayed in a wide variety of places in this part of the world – from our beautiful but not so cosy Zugspitze Iglu, a fabulously well equipped canvas “house” (in a snow storm) in the heart of the Black Forest earlier this year, my special birthday palace near Garmisch, and a medieval hotel […]
Pastures New – Almabtrieb – Predazzo
Before Frau Holler (or Old Mother Frost) can even begin to think about shaking her feather eiderdown (resulting in the first blankets of snow as the German fairytale goes), something pretty special takes place across most Alpine regions, whether they are in France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria or in this instance Italy… I wrote about the […]