Farewell to the Beautiful Cambridge
We’ve been back in New Zealand almost a year now. In a few days, it will have been a whole year since we left Cambridge. Time has just *flown* by,…
Abbey and Chris’ Wedding
Our last week in the UK was busy. Brilliant, but busy. A wedding, packing and cleaning then a wee London farewell. But firstly, a wedding between the amazing Abbey and…
Top 5 Pubs in Cambridge
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, we tried to visit every pub in Cambridge. And while we weren’t successful, we visited many many pubs and they were easy to enjoy.…
Pubs – More Marvellous Cambridge Pubs
When we moved to Cambridge, we noted that there were 92 pubs in Cambridge and we aspired to visit every pub in Cambridge. Well, we had a good crack at…
Top 5 Harry Potter Film Locations
During our 4 years in the UK, we visited 27 different Harry Potter film locations. Some of these sights were ‘because we could’ ones, like going to Lambeth Bridge because the…
Harry Potter – Finally Visiting Harrow School
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ll know that Rob is amazing. The reason he’s amazing? Because for the last 4 years, he let me drag him…
Le Tour De Cambridge
So for those of you that didn’t know, back in July le Tour de France had three stages in the UK before heading to France. The Tour started in York…
Hot Air Ballooning in Cambridgeshire
This year, I (Rob) turned 30 and I was lucky enough to receive some lovely presents. One of them was a hot air balloon ride over Cambridgeshire. First thing’s first…
Harry Potter – Platform 9 3/4, the Leaky Cauldron and more
Over the last year or 2, I’ve been continuing to visit various Harry Potter film sights around the country (dragging Rob along with me). This post almost finishes the whole…
Pubs – Churning Through Our Pub List!
As some of you may remember, Rob and I are trying to visit every pub in Cambridge. There were 92 when we first moved over and we’ve visited a lot…
The Fat Duck – A Remarkable Food Experience
Some of you might have heard of Heston Blumenthal and his marvellous feasts he would prepare on his TV show. Rob and I used to love watching that TV show in…
Yorkshire – Another Abbey Ruin and Other Adventures
After a great first day, we were eager for some more walks and abbey ruins. Luckily, Yorkshire is happy to oblige – we set off for Rievaulx Abbey and walking the…
Yorkshire – A Day Out at Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Park
In England, there are 2 long weekends in May. For the first one, our friend Richard kindly invited us up to his holiday home in Yorkshire for walks, ruins and…
Gloucester – A Stunning Cathedral
We had a wonderful 3 nights in Wales, with delicious food and plenty of beers. It was time to go home, but we had one more sight to see –…
Heading to Wales: Averbury and an Abbey
For Easter this year, we wanted to go on a wee roadtrip and see some more of this country. We’ve made several trips around England, 3 to Scotland but only…
More Pubs, Both Old and New
Some of these pub photos are old. Strangely, there’s one pub from July 2011 that I forgot we visited, so didn’t catalogue sooner. So we’ll start with the oldest photos, The…
Kiwi Christmas in Cambridge
We couldn’t afford to go home for Christmas last year which sucked. But we were inspired by Caroline’s Orphans’ Christmas she invited us to in 2010 so decided to host our…
Cambridge – The CAMRA Ale Trail 2012
Back in April this year, we participated in the CAMRA Ale Trail 2012. Basically, we had to visit 10 real ale pubs during a 6 week period and have a…
Northumberland – Visiting Alnwick Castle
After our busy walking day at Hadrian’s Wall, we drove away through the farmlands of Northumberland all lined with their pilfered Hadrian’s Wall stone. We wound our way up to…