Category: Lifestyle

Two days in Arcachon, France

The car was packed Friday evening and we woke with the baby at 8am in a bit of a panic because this was, for the first time, and h...

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Île de Ré

I was in awe, once again, at how children do not tire as easily of what adults see as “the same”, because for them it is not, ther...

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Pretty soon everybody's got Naan!

Ok, so it's not quite like the tanoor breads of the middle east - but it is pretty close (in a western stylee!)

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The Famous Five go to Scafell Pike

Late September and camping in England are not two things I thought I would ever link, but there you are, life is full of surprises...

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The Lockdown Menu

So, as the world locks down to flatten the curve of COVID-19, closer to home we are trying to flatten the curve of food consumptio...

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Not far from the madding crowds!

Nestled in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales on the banks of the River Wharfe, Bolton Abbey is regarded as Yorkshire's best day out...

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See my brighter future - Hardcastle Crags

A fiver for a day's parking at the National Trust carpark seemed a bit steep (there are literally no other choices for parking), b...

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Food in France

We eat a mostly plant based diet, with one eggseption. We do not eat meat or dairy, having cut these out for our whole family over...

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A Winter Christmas

Or… a guilt-free Christmas! There’s nothing like a fuzzy Christmas jumper to hide the multiple glasses of eggnog and a huge Christ...

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Profitez bien de ces moments de famille

At the beginning of winter when the geese said goodbye to their French summer and flew south for the winter, it was a truly depres...

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