Annabel's Travelblog

 The Swan Whisperer left the charging cable for his computer in Sussex on Friday.  Fortunately our niece was able to bring it back to London...

 The Boys have been spending most of the Easter holidays with their other grandparents, but they are back in Town now, and came to visit us ...

 A fine Easter Monday, for once, so we decided to walk along the river.  We've been along the South Bank umpteen times before, but we ha...

 For some years now, it has been the delightful custom of my sister and/or my mother to give Robert and me a voucher for afternoon tea somew...

In hindsight, of course, we should have gone by train to the NEC, but when your tickets include free parking, you don't really think of ...

The boys had an INSET day today.  The Lanky Teenager planned to spend the day with his friends, playing badminton and maybe revising (Februa...

 It should have been a lovely day!  We have been on several railtours before, and always enjoyed them very much, so that when we learnt that...

 IanVisits recently posted an interesting article  about the Richmond Draw-Off, so we decided that, as we hadn't been out together for a...

We do not often go "out out"; usually evening expeditions, if any, are to various meetings of one kind or another. The last time I...

Another Bank Holiday, another excursion.  This one was a bit of a bucket-list option for me, as we went to explore Brompton Cemetery , in Fu...

Today was the May Day holiday, so of course the weather, which has been being absolutely lovely, went back on us and it was seriously cold a...

The Silvertown Tunnel opened today and I hoped we would be able to go through it on opening day - after all, how often is there a new tunnel...

 Three years ago, we celebrated our wedding anniversary by having an afternoon tea cruise on the river Thames.  Today, we did it again, cou...

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...