England tour 2020

As I write we should be somewhere south of Barcelona heading towards Valencia on Seabourn Encore, but alas we’re not. Cruising has… Read more: UK 2020 Covid Tour – day -3

OK, naming the previous post “day 0” was mistaken but that’s fixed now. Here’s a new day 0! In fact today is not… Read more: UK 2020 Covid Tour – day 0

It takes just two hours to get everything packed. After a leisurely breakfast we hit the lists we have previously prepared, arguably… Read more: UK 2020 Covid Tour – day 1

We’re up reasonably early and by 09h00 we are casting off from our overnight moorings. As we do this another boat is… Read more: UK 2020 Covid Tour – day 2

We’re moored right beside the village of Blisworth and start our day by wandering in to find a newspaper. Unfortunately the only… Read more: UK 2020 Covid Tour – day 3

Our marathon day starts with an alarm. Not alarm clock, but heating failure alarm. On previous nights we’d been woken a couple… Read more: UK 2020 Covid Tour – day 4

We plan an early start as we need to return the boat by 09:00. This is not so difficult as we intentionally… Read more: UK 2020 Covid Tour – day 5

When we were here nine years ago with our friend Sheila we took a wonderful walk based on a walking route provided… Read more: UK 2020 Covid Tour – day 6

Having reminded ourselves that the Cotswolds is somewhat less vertically dramatic than Mother Yorkshire, I decide to increase today’s walking budget from… Read more: UK 2020 Covid Tour – day 7

It’s time to move on, we have had three lovely days in the Cotswolds, culminating with dinner at the wonderful new (to… Read more: UK 2020 Covid Tour – day 8

Birthday day is always special. It’s the reason we built this holiday this way round, so one of the middle days was… Read more: UK 2020 Covid Tour – day 9

Originally today was going to be lazy. Then we saw the weather was deteriorating so it got turned into a big walking… Read more: UK 2020 Covid Tour – day 10

As if leaving Hambleton isn’t sad enough, today is the day we would have finished our three weeks aboard Seabourn cruising the… Read more: UK 2020 Covid Tour – day 11

Today’s plan is walking into Scarborough along the coast and back via rail. Sort of.  We drop down through Scalby village and… Read more: UK 2020 Covid Tour – day 12

It’s a shame that our last day has the worst weather, but sometimes these things just don’t plan out properly, Later on… Read more: UK 2020 Covid Tour – day 13

Oh dear here’s a dilemma. Does this weekend count towards our ongoing Covid vacation? We’re just visiting Father-in-Law so that’s not vacation,… Read more: UK 2020 Covid Tour – days 14 – 16

Our first full day, indeed all our days, are planned and we’re raring to get going in a westerly direction today. One… Read more: UK 2020 Covid Tour – day 17

It’s amazing what difference a decimal point makes!  It’s quite easy to spend money? Certainly easier than it is to make it… Read more: UK 2020 Covid Tour – day 18

I’ve always argued against using the word “new” in a title. It’s guaranteed to become a misleading statement before long – the… Read more: UK 2020 Covid Tour – day 19

If yesterday’s weather experience wasn’t enough, Accuweather tells us that today is going to be worse – thanks for that! Torrential rainfall… Read more: UK 2020 Covid Tour – day 20

The weird solution to our usual vacations continues from this weekend. After a two week season at Leeds Playhouse where we enjoy… Read more: UK 2020 Covid Tour – day 21 – 23

Our day starts rather disappointingly with a poor breakfast. Whilst noting is dreadful, it’s not cooked to my liking. I rarely complain… Read more: UK 2020 Covid Tour – day 24

To paraphrase that famous expression “it’s not you, it’s me” I overhear several people commenting on how lovely breakfast is. Clearly I’m… Read more: UK 2020 Covid Tour – day 25

It’s unheard of for us to do our “induction walk” on the last day, but astonishing as it might sound, Boris didn’t… Read more: UK 2020 Covid Tour – day 26