In one of my blog side quests I've been hunting down old cookery books to try out historic Cotswold recipes. Here's the pick of the bunch (lamprey casserole and rook pie not included!) explorethecotswolds.com/traditional-...

Looking back at the last year on the blog and on the road www.ontheluce.com/on-the-luce-...

My hometown of Cheltenham putting on a pretty decent Christmas display this year ✨

Came across a clearly AI written Cotswold guide on Amazon and am almost tempted to spend the £14.99 to find out what delights Bourton-sur-Water, Snowdrift and Stack-on-the-Wold have to offer…

There's 25% off InterRail passes at the moment for anyone who like me has less flights and more train travel on their 2025 hit list www.interrail.eu/en/interrail...

New post on the Cotswold blog all about museums in Bath (just in time for my festive trip there next week for the Christmas markets) explorethecotswolds.com/best-museums...

More Cotswold festiveness at the lovely Sudeley Castle Spectacle of Light last night (I'm in danger or reaching peak Christmas before we even make it into December at this rate) – this year's theme is Sleeping Beauty (with added elephants).

Proving for yet another year that I am far better at watching other people ice skate while drinking a mulled wine than I am at actually skating (thanks to the Gateway Ice Rink for inviting us to their launch last night)

Yes I probably could be doing something more productive today than badly Photoshopping pictures of my cats into Cotswold scenes to make a calendar for my cat-sitting neighbour, but why would I want to?

Kicking off my new Bluesky account with some appropriately gorgeous blue skies and autumn colours in the Forest of Dean this week - travel pics and tips, Cotswold views, lots of car-free and train travel stuff and plenty of cat spamming to come