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Exploring Weymouth: An old fashioned seaside town on the Jurassic coast
Weymouth in Dorset is an old fashioned seaside resort on the Jurassic coast. It is roughly halfway on the long distance Jurassic coast path. It has a sheltered harbour and a very safe sandy beach. For Natalie’s weekend coffee share and Thursday doors this week I am inviting you to join me and Bill at…
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Cary Grant: From Bristol Childhood to Hollywood Stardom
Cary Grant was a Hollywood heartthrob who starred in Hitchcock films such as North by Northwest and Notorious. He was even Ian Fleming’s first choice to play James Bond but he turned the part down. Some people think he would have been excellent as Bond but his own background was very different from the fictional…
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Upfest 2024 a colourful celebration of street art in Bristol
Upfest began in 2008 with about 50 graffiti artists in Bristol. It has rapidly grown to become one of the largest and most popular festivals of street art in Europe. This year over 300 artists took part and the festival attracted about 50,000 visitors over 17 days. The community of south Bristol were heavily involved…
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Shaftesbury a stroll down Gold Hill
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A weekend in Stratford on Avon
This weekend for Natalie’s weekend coffee share I am inviting you to share a hot drink with us in Stratford on Avon. Last weekend our walking group visited Stratford on Avon and were engulfed by all things Shakespearean. It is a small market town on the edge of the Cotswolds and only twenty-eight miles from…
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Santiago’s coffee shop and Kingsdown
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Chocolate smash in Bristol
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A morning in St. Werburghs Bristol
