Tag: hotel

Our lunch at the Hotel Tresanton was just one of an abundance of food-focused things we did in our time down in St Mawes. For other things to do if you're planning a visit, check out my round-up of great things for foodies on the Roseland...

Treehouses, hot tubs, birdsong, barbecues. You might be thinking of far-flung places. Somewhere in the Far East maybe? Or perhaps some swanky enclave down south where the rich and famous go to play. What if I told you this rural idyll is right on...

I've wanted to eat a proper meal at Farmer, Butcher, Chef since I wrote a piece about it for my day job (which is here by the way). That was just over a year ago - pretty much the average amount of time it takes for me to finally get to places,...

Sometimes, when it all gets too much, you just need to escape and curl up in a room away from home, sleeping at inappropriate times, eating an inappropriate amount of food, and forgetting about all the important stuff that constitutes...

As a land-locked Midlander, I often crave the seaside. And for some reason, we always tend to head south or west. As a kid, seaside involved good old Weston-super-Mare or slightly further afield to Wales or Devon and later in life, Mr M and I...

Trying to get a firefighter to a spa isn't the easiest thing. Especially when they've been mentally scarred by one. The last time I took Mr M into a spa, I inadvertently signed us up for some 'romantic' experience that involved us having to read...

Ski holidays are funny old things - they're waaaaaaaay more expensive, it seems, than other holidays and completely different in so many ways. But I love 'em. I love being outside in the fresh all day, challenging yourself, seeing amazing...

There are some trips you remember not just because the place is great, but because it links in with something quite personal. This is one. On the day we were due to go to the Woodstock Arms, we buried my cousin who lost her fight against cancer at...

When it comes to my list of UK places to visit, Dorset has been on it for a good old time. Ironically the list has got longer, rather than shorter, since we got Brandy as we focus more on staycations with her than jaunts abroad to distant lands. But...

On one of our recent jaunts away, you may recall I said I was going to tell you about our night at The Ship Inn in Rye. We'd tootled down to East Sussex to visit The Gallivant in Camber - you've already heard all about that, but had decided to eek...