Annabel's Travelblog

The Swan Whisperer has just started two weeks' jury service - at his age, he could have refused, but he so enjoyed it last time he did i...

 A few days ago, we were in Vienna  and saw some of the Lippizaner stallions in their winter quarters in the Hofburg - something on my bucke...

Ten years ago, we visited the lost village of Imber .  At the time, I'm not sure how well-known the day was, other than by transport ner...

For the past four or five years, the London Power Tunnels have had a site at the corner of our road.  Obviously it is a building site, but w...

Usually, when something appears too good to be true, it is!  Not in this case, though.  The other day, I happened to see a post about the Sa...

 Many years ago now, we took the Boy to Crystal Palace Park to look for dinosaurs.  Today, we took his brother.  Boy2 is 10 now, much older...

The best day of the summer so far - and according to the weather forecasters, it will be the only one - so we thought we had better make the...

The Museum of Childhood at Bethnal Green is an old friend - we've taken the Boys at least twice .  But it has now reopened after having...

Today, 29 April, was All Change on many of London's bus routes.  Three of the routes involved went through Brixton, so it was a no-brain...

 My family have developed a very nice habit of giving the Swan Whisperer Experience vouchers for Christmas, which we then like to redeem aro...

So we were on half-term grandparent duty today.  Their mother brought them down to Brixton Station, where the Swan Whisperer met them and br...

So today I had arranged to go Christmas shopping with the Daughter at Westfield, Stratford.  Now, I have commented before on the myriad way...

 Although the Elizabeth Line has been open for some months, Bond Street station didn't open until today.  And while we were on holiday, ...

The Elizabeth Line opened while we were still away in Germany, so we missed the grand opening, and one way and another hadn't got round ...

Stockwell Bus Garage is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and, to celebrate, held an Open Day.  You could just go and potter round...

 I had a dentist appointment in Clapham at 4:00 pm, so, we thought, when we learnt that the Bank branch of the Northern Line was reopening t...