Travelogue

Most of us will have a favourite local spot that we like to haunt; one of mine is the Urban Beach Hotel in Bournemouth. I have been going since Mark Cribb its owner opened for business. I have several conditions on what makes a place good, basically location, atmosphere, and food. The Urban Beach [...]

I took a trip on Sunday to Shaftesbury a town about 30 miles from where I live. It was one of those occasions where I just picked a place at random and decided to visit.

On the way to Shaftesbury I saw signs for the Larmer Tree Gardens and decided to investigate. The gardens takes its [...]

It’s one of those Summers – that the first sign of sunshine and I have reached for the coast. Sadly to say – there hasn’t been many days of good weather – the few days that have been nice I have caught some images of local areas, starting with Lulworth Cove, then dinner in Lynton [...]

An extremely busy week has had me in several places of the country. This week I was back to South Wales to meet a client, got booked by an overzealous cop and given a speeding ticket… err I was going 5mph over the national limit…
The following day I was in London for a meeting. London [...]

By now most running enthusiast and music aficionados would have heard about the partnership between Apple and Nike to create a type of computerized personal training assistant that fits into your running shoes by way of a chip/receiver that relays information directly to your iPod Nano. The combination is named Nike+
I heard about this combination [...]

There have not been many consistently nice days this summer, they all seem to come sporadically and you have to take your chances for when the weather is going to be warm enough to really enjoy it. Nevertheless, Sunday was a beautiful day and we decided to do the local rounds.
Summer Barbeque
A local hotel that [...]

Instead of going abroad we decided this year to take a short camping holiday in Woolacombe, Devon. We left on Sunday and headed South West to Devon. It’s about a two and a half hour drive from Bournemouth and takes you into the heart of some beautiful West Country areas. We drove past Croyde which [...]

This Sunday I spent the entire day catching up on a ‘To Do List’ that is never ending. A good part of it was spent putting the list into some form or hierarchy – I guess it’s all relevant – and as usual – managed a few things on the list and added a few [...]

I keep meaning to say a few more substantial words about this restaurant and take some photos with the traveling mobile phone, rather than the last time which was just a paragraph which I am deleting and replacing with this.
The Forest Tea House in Burley is one of those New Forest restaurants that could go [...]

An hour and a half drive from Bournemouth takes you to Sidmouth on the coast of East Devon. On entering Sidmouth it looks like any other seaside town in the South West. I had a couple of friends visiting from the States and we decided to squeeze out the last of the summer weather (semi [...]