Our review of The Scallop Shell in Bath, where we find out whether their fish and chips at twenty-four pounds a portion is good value or overpriced.

Our review of The Scallop Shell in Bath, where we find out whether their fish and chips at twenty-four pounds a portion is good value or overpriced.
Review of The Circus in Bath, a restaurant with a focus on good seasonal ingredients where classic and familiar dishes are tweaked by a talented chef.
The easy Porlock to Porlock Weir circular walk is small in length but big on diversity of landscapes and reasons to linger.
Choosing the best route for walking Cheddar Gorge in Somerset seems obvious. This is why we chose not to follow it.
We went to The Farmers Arms in Combe Florey simply because it was the only place open… It was Jack’s birthday so we wanted to go out for lunch to somewhere we had never been before which really should have been an easy mission. Except that it was a Monday, and it was the day before New Year’s Eve. This…
Walking in sludgy conditions was never an issue during all the years we lived in the Canary Islands and then Portugal, so we were a bit spoilt by conditions that, for most of the year, were walker-friendly. Ironically, in those locations it is summer which is the enemy of hikers. While we aren’t bothered about getting wet or tackling muddy…
Positioned right on the southern edge of the National Park, Dulverton calls itself ‘the gateway to Exmoor’. A small market town on the banks of the River Barle, this is a lively town with a strong community spirit, lots of independent shops, and a couple of very good places to eat. On the last Saturday of every month between April…
The problem with Llangollen was that over the preceding days we had become accustomed to the tranquillity of quiet pastoral lands and untamed mountains as we followed Offa’s Dyke north from Chepstow.
I’m concentrating on hiking in Britain where I’ve decided there are fundamentally two different types of hikers. Identifying which is which can be achieved by asking just one question.
Three days into the route, I concluded we had made an error of judgement in our fitness levels, and I was seriously considering giving up.