(For more photos, see my Nova Scotia Pinterest Board and John’s photo journals.) Halifax is just over an hour’s flight from Montreal. We arrived on a balmy Saturday evening to… Read more Halifax and Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia →
Yesterday, we walked in the opposite direction, all the way up to Mont-Royal, Montreal’s mountain. It’s a stiff climb, about 760 feet, but worth it for the views. The park… Read more Mont-Royal and Oratoire St Joseph, Montreal →
The old part of Montreal, down by the St Lawrence River, is beautiful to wander round. It’s also warm at the moment which, for refugees from the Scottish summer, is… Read more Old Montreal →
A couple of months ago, I wrote about our visit to the Glasgow Necropolis. It’s the most famous, but not the only, Glasgow cemetery with a heritage trail and we… Read more Sandymount Cemetery Heritage Trail →
A stay at Churchill College.
QEFP, created in honour of the Queen’s Coronation in 1953, is a beautiful area of forests, lochs and hills. We must have done most of the walks in it at… Read more Queen Elizabeth Forest Park →
Many thanks to Holiday365.co.uk for listing me amongst their Top 20 UK Travel Blogs. I’m not sure what I’ve done to deserve that but it’s very flattering! Thanks also to Heather on her Travels for pointing it out to me on Twitter. She’s on the list too, so I need to investigate her blog and the other 18 nominees so that I can update my blogroll. That’s a project for another day though….
I felt very foreign in England this weekend as it celebrated the Queen’s Jubilee. True, there was not as much bunting as I had expected (but still a lot more… Read more In England’s green and pleasant land →
A 12th century abbey, an Elizabethan house, a Georgian water garden, a Victorian church and a beautiful deer park.
June is definitely not flaming for a visit to our friends in Bramham.
On a sunny Sunday afternoon, we set off for the Necropolis, Glasgow’s Victorian garden cemetery, armed with two leaflets about it: Glasgow City Council’s Heritage Trail and Glasgow Women’s Library’s… Read more Glasgow Necropolis →
Aberfeldy is a lovely little Perthshire town. If you visit there, it is compulsory to go to the Watermill, a combined bookshop, art gallery and cafe. All are equally good.… Read more Aberfeldy →
The Glasgow Gallivanter 