Fantastic foodie night in Winchester – The Black Rat and The Black Bottle
So – last year for Mr P’s birthday we were lording it in 5* luxury in the middle of a desert. This year I had it all to do to try and match that treat – I needed to find a perfect birthday dinner as we didn’t have holiday planned this year to…
View PostCountry weekend at The Crown Inn
#Take12Trips got off to a splendid start this weekend! We enjoyed a thoroughly relaxing time at The Crown Inn, in Elton, on the Cambridgeshire / Northamptonshire border. I hadn’t been able to arrange the Parker diary to visit in December as hoped so we had been looking forward to a wintery mini-break for a…
View PostAmerican Airlines Business Class – LHR to MIA
I’m very loyal to British Airways, but for a recent business trip the flight time on a BA code share with American Airline’s to Miami was much more amenable and so I took the brave step. This step was buoyed along by the fact that the flight was on one of AA’s brand new…
View PostUPDATED Washington Dulles BA Lounge & the BA216 A380 home
Just a couple of weeks ago, British Airways opened its new Galleries lounge at Washington Dulles Airport, coinciding with the new BA A380 route between IAD and London Heathrow. As chance would have it last week I was flying British Airways business class to and from Washington and so was able to visit! Not…
View PostA great dame – the Chewton Glen
As my husband will confirm, I often ask him the question ‘when can we stay at the Chewton Glen next’ followed swiftly by the statement ‘i’d really like to stay in a treehouse there’… In fact he might go so far as to say I sound like a broken record! But the fact…
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