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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ah, two days Off Grid. And I know that I'm grossly misusing the term "off grid" here, but it sounds exciting and dramatic and you all know how I love a bit of over-dramatisation. What I mean to say, really, is 2 Days Away on Holiday, but online reviews of The Scarlet...
I think - and I say this tentatively because there are so many beautiful hotels and brilliant restaurants in London - but I think that The Beaumont Hotel and its restaurant, The Colony Grill Room, might just have sailed up to the top of my recommendations list. I...
Never before had I been in such dire need of a break. Avid readers will have heard me bang on about my desperation to go on holiday many times, this year, but somehow - what with work commitments and baby stuff and Mr AMR never being free at the right moment - time...
If I didn't have a house renovation happening (aka "the money pit") and a baby about to emerge, then I would one hundred percent be going on holiday right this very minute. You know when you get to the end of your tether and the only thing you want to do is run away...