The Armchair Traveller

On our third day in Austin we decided to go for a one and a half hour drive south to San Antonio, Texas (the second largest city in Texas). Mum and Lynsey had wanted to do this trip on their last visit to Austin but had run out of time and I had been recommended [...]

For at least two months before arriving in Austin, Texas the friends we would be staying with had warned us that the weather was currently “hot as hell” and that we should bring only our coolest clothes, so stepping out of Austin Bergstrom Airport I couldn’t really exclaim surprise about the heat, except for the [...]

After only a few hours sleep it was suddenly Wednesday morning and I was in Denver! Mum and Lynsey were up and about in the hotel room preparing for the first day of the conference they were here to attend and I took the opportunity to be as lazy as possible because I was here [...]

It was going to be a very long day – 7 hours in a plane from London to Minneapolis, 4 hours waiting in Minneapolis, then another 2 hours on a plane from Minneapolis to Denver. However, Mum and Lynsey waiting at Denver airport for me makes all this travel worth it!
My day of traveling began [...]

About a month ago I was fortunate to be invited to spend the weekend with Rachel’s aunt and uncle. It was the long weekend in the UK and so the plan was to go down to Surrey on Saturday and come back up to London on Monday night. Sunday was reserved for a trip out [...]

It has now been 6 months since I first planted my Iris’ and I am sad to inform you all that the bulbs have finally given up and died. Out of 5 bulbs there were three which flourished, two of which flowered, one which just grew really long green stems and one which didn’t make [...]