Travel Tuesday - Inspiration

Oh how I need the sun, and some culture, fresh food and inspiration. We are hoping to go to France at the end of the year - a place I love and have been many times, although there are still many parts I we have not yet explored - one being Mount Saint Michel, a beautiful island in Normandy which an amazing Church perched on the top. This is a place I would love to take Mr A as it looks so magical. Another country I have had the pleasure of exploring is Greece, having been to Athens, Paros, Skiathos and Corfu, it is one of my favourite places and it's not hard to see why - wonderful weather, lovely fresh and healthy mediterranean food and inspiring surroundings. One of the islands I have always wanted to visit is Santorini with it's iconic white and blues houses and crystal clear sea. ...

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Wonderful Wye

Beautiful breakfast setting So this past weekend we finally had a break away - even though the weather was not great it could not damped our expierence. We rented an amazing converted chapel in the Wye Valley. All three of us went as well as my brother and our family dog Sam. Pentwyn Chapel is rated 5 star by visit Wales and was amazing! It really ticked all our boxes and had the most amazing dinning room with stained glass windows. The location was great as well, out in the country but only 10minutes from the market town of Monmouth. It was also only 200 yards from the Inn at Penallt where we had lunch on the 2nd day and provides fine dinning in the evening and the staff were so friendly and accommodating to little Mr A who was being a bit of a handful. While winding the evening aways in the beautiful Wye Valley, relaxing and enjoying each others company we also managed to tick of some more heritage sights on our list and visited Raglan and Tintern Abbey, which I will share with y......

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Silent Sunday

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Pontcanna Lovin

There is always that one place in the city you really wish you lived in and for John and I, that place is Pontcanna in Cardiff, fulled of little cafes, delis and boutique shops it's the place we are aiming to live. So when ever the sun is out that is where we try to go as there is a beautiful park to walk in simply stunning old houses...ahh dreams. We decided to try a different place to eat - Diner 77, not the most popular of the cafes simply because it's stuck between the ever so popular Cafe Brava and Cilo's, but either way the food is good, I love their sweetcorn salsa and they have a lot of veggie options and the proporations are huge (good value for money in that part of town) and the staff are very friendly even though they may not be as young and hip like the other places. After food we dodged rain and spent about 10 min under a church archway as there was a sudden down pour - although this was rather fun and romantic (well I thought so anyway). Our next stop after t......

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