Welcome to a new little series on my blog, The Cruise Diaries. Cruises have been the holiday of choice for my family since I was eleven, I'm now nearly twenty-three. If you couldn't tell we really like them... Yet every year we've always had questions or comments from friends along the lines of "oh, I don't think that'd be for me" or "well won't you get bored being…
The last time Sam and I went down to Bristol we immediately booked back in with the same lady for the end of May this year. As always with us, a day or so exploring Bristol turned into a lot more and we ended up spending nearly a week road tripping around the South. We visited Bristol as planned, then Brighton to meet some more of Sam's friends, Little…
Before we went away Sam, I and our parents all went out for a little meal together at The Royal Oak. A Gastro Pub-esque restaurant located not far from Preston. This place was Sam's suggestion after he realised he used to work with the guys that now own it and are the chefs. For those of you that don't know Sam is my boyfriend and a brilliant cook.…
A little bit ago my family and I ventured into Manchester for a bit of a shopping day. It's a rare occasion we're all off at the same time so we made a little event out of it, as you should do, and treated ourselves to lunch out and in mine and my mum's case a cheeky glass of wine. On my dad's recommendation, we came to El…
It seems like this trip came round in a flash. Around November Sam and I got an invite to his best friends wedding which was being held up in Scotland. We RSVP'd straight away and decided to turn it into a little holiday. I've never been before but had always wanted to. We booked the cutest little cottage right on the edge of Loch Lomond, a ten-minute walk…