Winchester Cathedral Christmas Market has become something of a habit in this household and we were all very sad not to be able to go last year, so the moment it was announced that it was (probably) definitely going ahead in 2021, it went in our calendars. It’s pretty consistently marked as one of the … More Come with me to Winchester Christmas Market
The third post of the Polar Bear Winter Festival is another winter-themed one – well, an ice-and-snow-themed one, anyway. It’s a Travel Library post and it’s all about A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter, the Austrian wife of a scientist of some kind turned fur trapper who spent a year living with … More Travel Library: A Woman in the Polar Night
Well, I didn’t foresee my second post in the Polar Bear Winter Festival being a TV review but I also didn’t realise that the first episode of the new series of Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby on BBC2 was going to be about the ION Adventure Hotel in Iceland. What’s more wintery than a … More Amazing Hotels: ION Adventure Hotel
Welcome to the Polar Bear Winter Festival! I’ve written two posts a week for years and now, to celebrate winter because I am, after all, a polar bear, I’m doing an extra post every week until Christmas on the joys of the cold, the snow, the ice, some freezing northerly places I’ve been – and yes, … More 20 things to do in Dorset this Christmas