We should try camping again,” I told Madam, “There’s a tent in the garage we haven’t used yet.” She reminded me that the last time we went camping, many years ago, we pitched our tent in a field behind a pub. We then spent every evening in the pub, drinking beer and eating sticky toffee … Continue reading Let’s Go Camping – Salisbury and Stonehenge
York: Dragons and Permafrost
As we left the train in York, or detrained as our transatlantic cousins would have it, I realised that this was the furthest north I had ever been in England. Growing up in the south, we all believed that anywhere much north of Oxford was covered in year-round permafrost and patrolled by fire-breathing dragons. Older … Continue reading York: Dragons and Permafrost
Travels With Madam 