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OK if you are not coming West to Rotto, then I concede that Tassie is the next best for lovely weather, friendly people and lots to see.

As well as magnificent estates and gardens in the UK, I find their common everyday garden centres great places for a morning or afternoon tea outing. I am envious of a any garden centre that has a gift shop, restaurant with views, gourmet deli, butchers, florist, Edinburgh Woollen Mills shop...

I took the excellent Oxford Tube straight to Victoria Train Station then a train to Bromley, Kent to cat sit for my niece during my final 10 days in London. Getting a little weary now after 3 months on the road, but there is so much to see and do in London that I feel I have to squeeze every...

Ensuite rooms about 79 pounds a night and that includes breakfast. I checked airbnb prices as well and they were similar or more expensive but further out. Hotels in the city were very pricey. Nice white bedlinen and fluffy towels and toiletries supplied. Welcome biscuits, tea, coffee and...

Fly to Perth, ferry or fly to Rottnest Island. Stay 3 nights at Karma Resort ? Midnight church service Xmas Eve in tiny chapel. 1130 Xmas Day lunch at the Rottnest Hotel $199 each ! So laid back on the island it could be described as being comatosed ! Or..Spend a few days cycling, swimming...

Train to Oxford next. A wonderful University town with old buildings and a youthful vibe. Not as scenic or compact as Cambridge, so I found a Hop on and off bus tour useful. For the next 2 nights I stayed in Keble College, booked through the University websites that all offer accomodation...

I enjoyed the visit to Blists Hill..a bit of industrial history, lots of relocated businesses and houses from late 1880’s. Very touristy but sometimes you need a light hearted break from all the visits to ancient churches, gravestones, museums or windswept moors.

The actor playing the role of headmaster in the Blists Hill village school was very talented, so was his twin brother who I saw later on at the police station. The chap belting out songs on the piano at the village pub looked familiar - Triplets perhaps ?

Another train journey from Chester to Telford with a change at Manchester Piccadilly, and the only time I missed my connection. Never mind this is the British rail system and there will be another one soon. Stayed the weekend with old friends in Shropshire. They took me to a tourist attraction...

Chester.. I’ll always remember you this way !

I don’t have any suggestions as to the perfect venue - but I will check my back copies of “Gourmet and Traveller magazine”, but main advice I would give is please don’t fly straight back after the tour finishes. Stay on in Europe anywhere ...for a few more days and have a really special 20th...

Unfortunately the weather closed in and it bucketed down during my stay in Chester, but I was able to get out and about on local buses to see a little. I feel I will have to come back to Chester one day in better weather to fully appreciate wandering down “ The Rows” covered walkways of shops...

Next off a quick visit to Daresby - population 216 - to see the Anglican All Saints Church and a new visitors centre dedicated to the author of Alice in Wonderland books, Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) who was born there. Then onto the market town of Frodsham, Cheshire and a short stay 2...

The previous photos are of Leeds which apart from a brief stroll through the Victorian shopping arcades and the unusual tiled cafe in their Art Gallery and some awful Damien Hirst artworks, has nothing of interest ..although I believe many cricket fans might argue this point ! By contrast I...

Wonderful place and from memory, very friendly people running the little museum.

L Lovely town..did you ‘take the waters’ ? Too stinky for me ! I went to some Springs around Castlemaine, Daylesford last week but just could not take a sip of the water from the pump in the park. When I asked in the supermarket I was told CocaCola own the bottling rights to the...

I did see an advert once in a local magazine for the Irish Association, asking for non-medical staff person to accompany a gentleman to Ireland, then deliver him to family for a short holiday. They were then free to do their own thing for 2 weeks until time to collect and accompany him back to...

Next up the Arcades of Leeds (very briefly) and Lively Liverpool.

Agree this has got to be the weekly winner ! Sorry, but think that Bodie’s contribution should be disqualified for being far too pretty.

Ready to see those dark, satanic mills and those funny place names like Studley Pike that I had heard mentioned over the decades. Todmorden and the Rochdale canal area was surprisingly pretty in the summer sunshine. A tiny town with an enormous Town Hall, clearly a statement by some of the...