It is a really lovely September morning - sunny, warm and fresh. Last night, H.I. agreed with each other that we should have a little holiday soon, and now we are trying to decide where we would both like to go with each other without the other one being disappointed. I am hoping you may be able to help.
I have a friend who has a lovely little camper van which he has said he would lend me, but getting H.I. to spend a night in anything with wheels would be like trying to drown a cat in 2 inches of water.
"Taking holidays in the UK is more expensive than flying abroad," she reminds me, and I raise my eyes to the ceiling and dream of the little camper van.
"I have never been to Cambridge," she also reminds me, and I remind her that I used to live there; it is a long way away; one has to overcome the M25 and Nick Warburton might think I am stalking him if I announce our arrival and suggest meeting up for a drink.
Our sometime regular house on the cliffs of St Ives (against which H.I. is hand-standing, and a view from the window below) has been demolished to make way for the most popular and expensive self-catering house in Cornwall and the natives are becoming hostile to the point of declaring unilateral independence, so the far West is also off the itinerary.
I very often get alerts from Trip Advisor offering me deals in country house hotels all over the country, but the thing that puts me off is the amount of money they say one can save by taking them up. £300 per person, per night off suggests quite an expensive room to my way of thinking, so I don't ask what the bill would be for a week.
How about Corfe Castle? It has the picturesque ruins after which it is named and the beautiful Studland Bay is very close. Does anyone own a little cottage we could borrow there for a few days?
Go to Bristol Airport and take a flight to Pula in Croatia. Lots of Ancient Roman ruins to look at. You can come and stay here in Norfolk if you want, choice of bedrooms, but you have to do all the cooking.
ReplyDeleteThank you for that kind offer but I want to be cooked for. I have been to Pula. It's great. I had a pizza in the coliseum. I drove there in a van twice. They do boat trips to Venice.
ReplyDeleteIt would be no contest for me - it would be a week in Siena - one of the most beautiful cities on earth.
ReplyDeleteYes, I have been to Siena - all that rare and expensive yellow marble used for steps in the streets!
DeleteCome to Verona. Cheaper than Rome and a better amphitheater - the Arena - than the Colosseum.
ReplyDeleteGreetings Maria x
Verona is a place I have not been. Maybe next year...
DeleteI just looked it up. The Arena still has seating and a stage, I think. Maybe not treated as badly during the war. It looks very flat around there. No 7 hills.
DeleteHow about a weekend break in Istanbul? You'd need to take-out some hefty insurance though!
ReplyDeleteI spent a couple of weeks in Istanbul, and what a wonderful place it is. Shame about the recent turns of events.
DeleteHow about Bristol to Gdansk? Interesting destination on the Baltic.
ReplyDeleteThis made me laugh a lot. Actually it was a serious suggestion.
DeleteI am about the last person to ask as my visit to the UK was only to London. But as an anglophile, I've gotten to see beautiful places there that I'd love to visit. One place that I'll definitely visit if I ever get another chance, is Dorset. I follow a blogger who lives there and it looks like heaven.
ReplyDeleteCorfe is in Dorset.
DeleteI'm surprised Cro didn't offer a certain pool house in picturesque French village.
ReplyDeleteWe have already spent three years with each other. That was enough for one lifetime.
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DeleteSowing the seeds of intrigue.
DeleteSitges? The Older gays would see you as a challenge
ReplyDeleteI would be a challenge, believe me.
DeleteNot after a bottle or two of port you wouldnt x
DeleteI am not just any old port in a storm. I have my standards.
DeleteYou two should write a sit-com.
DeleteWe set off for Cambridge yesterday morning from Harpenden. The A1 was closed just south of Stevenage, and an hour later after various detours we were only 15 mins from home...so that is where we went!! (It could have taken us hours to do what should have been an hour long trip.)
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a really crap holiday.
DeleteArisaig. (Scotland, with view of Rhum and Eigg.) You can take a nice long walk to the beach that was shown in the movie Local Hero (my all-time fave). The sunsets are to die for.
ReplyDeleteRye on Sea. It's beautiful. And Camber Sands is close by. Pretend you are Georgie and Lucia
ReplyDeleteOf course it is the only seaside English town I've ever stayed in, so I am biased!
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