This week I did something that felt possibly a bit batshit crazy and stayed, on my own, in a treehouse in the woods. I know. The person who gets spooked in her own garden. It is testament to just how desperately I needed to remove myself from all noise and distraction...
I'm very pleased with the poetic title for this post. I'm even more pleased with the fact I've actually finished the seaside holiday cottage renovation project I've been working on* and the romantic little Dorset Nook is now available to book! Think lazy walks down to...
Well here's an absolute treat of a little place to stay: The Gunton Arms in Norfolk. It provides what is, arguably, the perfect low-key country escape. If you yearn for remoteness and the chill whip of an autumnal wind as you stomp across fields with your hound in tow...
It normally takes me about two years to get around to writing up my hotel reviews (it's well over a year, I think, since I visited the Bedruthan in Cornwall and I still have the notes fresh in my mind, as though I visited yesterday!) but I'm trying to be more...
This post is what it says in the title: a post about my family holiday to the Lake District. We actually went in June and I meant to write it up then, but it takes me half a year to do anything these days. And it would have been completely forgotten had I not gone...
I thought I'd review this one whilst the crunch of the snow is still fresh in my head; it's the Arctic Treehouse hotel and rather a different affair to the little London rooms I've been trying out recently. Actually, in terms of room size, not so very different, I...
For the past few months I’ve been quite preoccupied with finding luxury London hotel rooms at less-than-luxury prices; not necessarily luxury rooms that have been heavily discounted, but rooms that are simply well-priced to begin with. Perhaps a room in a hotel...
As I began to write this hotel review I realised that I'd talked about the London Edition before; a rather extensive (completely fantastical) post about the story behind the creepy portraits that hang in every guest room. You can read that post here: The Woman In The...
What’s this thing with loofahs in hotel bathrooms? It seems to have become a standard thing, now, to provide one along with the cotton wool pads and buds and complimentary shower cap. And sometimes there's a loofah even when all other basic commodities are...
I completely forgot to post anything up about my little trip to Devon for my ten year wedding anniversary. (I know it should be "our trip to Devon" and "our wedding anniversary" but as Mr AMR prefers to skulk stubbornly in the shadows I take pleasure in excluding him...
I'm still very much undecided as to whether holidays abroad with babies and toddlers are a good idea. There are so many considerations, so many logistical problems and non-relaxing hurdles to jump over. Trying to get through airport security with two cartons of milk...
When Mr AMR and I first had Angelica, we vowed never to take a holiday abroad for at least five years. Just getting to Sainsbury's was enough of a faff - getting her into the car seat, getting her out again for a feed and a change, stopping for another feed halfway...