April Hanks
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Apr 18
April’s birthday – April 2024
My lovely husband wished me away to a beautiful hotel to be spoilt and pampered for my birthday. Lovely view from the room, nice meal in the evening followed by a spa day and cream tea. The only issue was the couples ‘salt’ treatment, after rubbing salt on each other, a steam then cold shower …
Feb 18
London – Feb 2024
Nice stay at Abbey Wood, using the Elizabeth line to pop into town. Off to see the Tom Hanks Moon experience and the Monet show. We had a great weekend, Jez getting to see the moon landing and me some nice art. We also managed to visit the London library to see some very important …
Dec 02
New Forest – Dec 2023
Having an issue with the fact the Christmas is around the corner and I have not done any autumn stuff yet, we decided to pop off to the New Forest for the weekend. Jez had just bought an electric bike so we thought we would have a go with that as well. The journey to …
Nov 08
The Earth Experience – Nov 2023
Quick London break to see the David Attenborough Earth Experience for Jez’s birthday. I had thought I had booked a lovely hotel, but this turned out to be a well decorated hole in the ground. We were in the basement, with work going on in the rooms around us, the bathroom was apparently an arctic …
Oct 20
Gloucester and The Cotswolds – Oct 2023
Short break to visit Gloucester, we were just going to visit the city, we had a treasure trail that took us through the town and along the canal, (which I was not expecting). It was all very lovely, we even ended up being able to visit the light show in the cathedral which was a …
Oct 13
Malvern Hills
So on the way to our narrow boat break in northern Wales, we stopped for a few nights in the Malvern Hills. Unfortunately the weather was rather wet, so the view was so misty we were unable to see the hills or the valleys. We did pop into Great Malvern which was very pretty and …
Sep 26
Way out West – September 2023
Now all the pesky kids have gone back to school we can take Hildegard for her first proper adventure! We decided to head West! So Friday night we stopped off in Ocknell, New Forest to break up the journey and spent a lovely night with the horses and cows. We started the day in Lyndhurst …
Oct 07
Milton Keynes February 2020
We know how to holiday! Where else would you go than Milton Keynes! Not much happened but Toby went to Adrenalin Alley for a good scoot!
Jul 15
Thank you for the hard work!
As our lovely neighbours especialy Colin put in so much hard work to polish and spray Hildergard to help her look fabulous, we treated them to a night away in Yeovil. I know what you are thinking, ‘Yeovil, that is not much of a treat’, but you are forgetting it is near the Fleet Air …