It’s Independence Day in the USA today, a day when its citizens celebrate and think about their freedom and what it means to them. I’m actually rather ashamed that I never knew, until I was a young adult, anything about the war of independence and my own country’s role in that. How could I not […]
Author Archives: Kirsty
ALiverpool city break has been something I have wanted to do for some time now. I think I’d read about it on someone’s blog years ago and realised that far from just being somewhere with a world famous football team, there was actually something interesting to see there. I’d mentioned to James about maybe taking […]
Northumberland has many attractions from the tidal Holy Island of Lindisfarne, to castles featured in movies, to beaches and nature. We were so lucky with the weather for our Northumberland trip last week. Apart from the first day when we arrived which was very cold and grey we had wall to wall sunshine. Beaches and […]
A Farne Island boat trip has been something we’d wanted to do for a while – we had never seen puffins in the wild and it was on our bucket list of things to see! The Farne Islands are in Northumberland in North East England and are easy to get to with many companies offering boat […]
