Category: Holidays

Beer Holidays Pubs & Bars Railways
7 September 2025

London to Istanbul – Epic Rail Journey : Day 2

A more leisurely start to our second day with a mid-morning DB ICE departure to carry us across Germany to Munich. The vagaries of the seat reservation selection managed to put us opposite the mid carriage luggage rack, great for keeping an eye on our cases but removing any view. An uneventful 4½ hour journey, at least on our side of the train, saw us […]

Beer Holidays Pubs & Bars Railways
26 August 2025

London to Istanbul – Epic Rail Journey : Day 1

From where we live it is a short bus ride to Heathrow Terminal 5 and so the logical route to St Pancras International is the Piccadilly Line and this was our plan, until three days before departure when I found out that it was closed all weekend. Plan B was the Elizabeth Line from T5 to central London and then a cab, more expensive but […]

General Holidays Railways Trips
23 August 2025

London to Istanbul – Epic Rail Journey : Introduction

With myself and Mrs MusingAnorak celebrating our Silver Wedding Anniversary in August we were determined to find a holiday to remember. After considering, and rejecting, a lot of options I came across the website of a company called Tailor Made Rail who specialise in holidays by rail. One itinerary particularly caught our eye, London to Istanbul with multiple city stops en route. We got in […]

General Holidays Trips
29 May 2023

There’s No Place Like Gnome

For the past couple of years the Hospital where I am employed has been working towards the implementation of a new Patient Administration System, just about the largest IT project a Trust can undertake. As an employee within the IT Department this obviously meant a lot of work and stress, and an understanding that the possibility of taking time off around Go-Live was out of […]

Beer General Holidays Pubs & Bars Scooping Trips
30 May 2022

Czeching It Out.

As February half term approached more and more countries were relaxing their COVID releated entry rules making travel easier. Unfortunately we had tickets for the Eurostar to Brussels and Belgium was one of the countries that was still insisting on a period of quarantine upon entry, and that effectively meant that the majority of our trip would be spent within our hotel room. Luckily Eurostar […]

Beer General Holidays Pubs & Bars Trips
31 January 2022

Where’s The Chicken? II

So I didn’t get much sleep, my leg really hurt and I wasn’t able to get comfortable at all. I guess there is a lesson to be learned here, but I doubt I’ll learn it. Anyway, the first task for today was to locate a craft supplies shop in order to procure a gift for Mrs MusingAnorak so I spent a bit of time on […]

Beer General Holidays Pubs & Bars Trips
25 January 2022

Where’s The Chicken?

So a lifetime ago (last September) I started looking at a possible city break destination. Initial thoughts centred around Poland but then I read somewhere that UK nationals didn’t require a visa to visit Ukraine until the end of January 2022 and that immediately made Kyiv the destination of choice. Flights and hotel were booked. But. It was still a wait of four months. And […]

Holidays Trips
4 November 2021

Rocking At The Southern Edge Of Europe

International travel is back, not quite as we remember it, but it is back. With the relaxing of the rules we decided to take a short break during half-term to test the waters. In order to enter Gibraltar you need to have booked a lateral flow test to be taken on arrival. In order to book this you need to have completed your passenger locator […]

Art Trails Holidays Public Art
17 August 2021

Mad As A Hatter

After a couple of days at home recovering I made the short trip up the M1 to Luton and their Big Trunk Trail, my last Trail of the holiday. 30 Elephants sited across the town and in parks to the north and south. To minimise walking I decided to park up at the southerly parks and get the Elephants there before heading in to town, […]

Art Trails Holidays Public Art
16 August 2021

Haring Along The Coast

It’s quite a long drag south through East Anglia from Norwich to the Essex coast but that is the journey we made to take in the next Trail, Hares About Town in Southend. This was another new Trail town for me, and the objective was to see the thirty hares that ran along the coast and up through the town. I figured that parking out […]