Local travel around the Wessex Area. I’m a Wessex Girl through and through (we’re more into wellies and cider than white stilettos and cocktails) and these are my posts about travel, adventure and holidays around Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Devon and Somerset.
Are you looking for a holiday around Bournemouth? Got you. What’s good to do on the Isle of Wight? Got you! Christmas on a heritage railway? Oh yes, got that too. Plenty of seaside, camping and family days out here, so take a look and see what catches your eye.
I was very excited about this – I was going for a sauna on a beach! There are now hundreds of small semi-rustic saunas on beaches and in woodlands around the country but Studland Sauna Hut was the first one I ever noticed. Back then, you either had to book it for a largeish group… More A sauna on the beach at Studland Sauna Hut
At first, camping on Brownsea Island seems dreamy and idyllic – your very own island, free of tourists for the evening, and more astonishingly, free of Scout camps! But then you realise there’s an infestation of hornets within the campsite and then thunder rumbles over and you realise you’re on an island a mile and… More Camping on Brownsea Island (again)
A couple of weeks ago, my mum happened to spot a “peg loom weaving workshop” on Facebook, mentioned to me that it sounded like the sort of thing I might be interested in and I booked onto it, with very little idea of what I’d actually booked, only that it would be educational and interesting… More Weaving a fleece mat on a peg loom
I feel like an elegant, sophisticated lady. This is an unusual sensation for me, someone who was once described as sounding “…populaire” (Swiss French for “urchin”) next to my “Princess Diana” triplet. But there’s something about Monart Spa that feels expensive and graceful and perfect. I had a voucher to celebrate “more than five years”… More Monart Spa, Poundbury: a review
I was very excited about my tour of the RNLI College but three days later I went back for the boatbuilding tour of the All-weather Lifeboat Centre and that was even more exciting. The College is also home to the factory where the RNLI builds its new fleet of Shannon-class all-weather lifeboats and services, repairs… More RNLI 200: how the RNLI build a lifeboat
This year, the RNLI is celebrating its 200th birthday and one of the things they’re doing to mark the occasion is to hold a Lifeboat Festival in Poole, the RNLI’s headquarters. There’s a lot of fun stuff going on this coming weekend but you can actually do quite a lot of it in your own… More RNLI 200: Take a Discovery Tour of the RNLI College in Poole
It’s been a really long winter. Summer is due any day and we still haven’t had spring. I began to feel a bit stir-crazy – I have a new (to me; I rescued it) tent that I really wanted to try out and the year was flying by and I still hadnt planned any camping… More A horse invaded my tent: camping in the New Forest
This is another video from my vault – my trip to Brownsea Island in 2021 to spend a weekend in a tree tent. Again, common to these old ones, it’s not the video I wanted to make. I vividly remember sitting down to talk to the camera, finding it difficult but doing it but the… More New video: a quick weekend on Paradise Island
I have many Christmas traditions (these three decorations must go here, here and here on the Christmas tree, making mince pies with Dad, putting out the boots, eating my body weight in After Eights) and one of them is that on the day after Boxing Day (or the day after that, depending on whether there’s a… More Christmas Adventure at West Bay
It’s Christmas Eve, it’s the last of my 12 Days of Christmas, you’ve already seen what I packed for this little trip, you’ve had a tour of my little church and now we get to the blog where I tell you about what I did. I did very little. I sat in the hot tub,… More A winter weekend away glamping in Cornwall