Tag / Bruges

Holiday Highlights

Since visiting Bruges in April we have had two more trips away. In May we had two nights in Stratford-upon-Avon followed by two nights in the Cotswolds and we have just returned from a week in the Lake District. The trip to Stratford had been long postponed. For several years we made a habit of going up once a year to see a Shakespeare play and only stopped because of the refurbishment of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Then it took us until this year to start going again. In January we looked at our diary and the performances that were on and opted for Antony...

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Bruges in April

  Bruges by Eurostar was always something we had wanted to do. One of our daughters lived near the Ebbs Fleet Eurostar station for years but strangely we never took advantage of going either to Paris or Bruges while she lived there. Maybe it was because we were working at the time and it seemed simpler and quicker to drive up to Bristol Airport and hop on the aeroplane. We used to do a lot of city breaks when we were working. Holidays were definitely mote important then. We were incredibly well organised about them and at the start  of every year we sat down...

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