A fun, active and cold city break to Riga brought lots of photo opportunities and completed our travels to all three Baltic States. We stayed for four nights at the cosy and fabulously located Old Riga Palace Hotel (Trip Advisor review) and so had three … Continue readingRiga – A Baltic Adventure
The Art Nouveau in Riga was well worth a trip up out of the old town to see it, the buildings were ace. I have put together a collection of photos from the area as promised, some may not be Art Nouveau I am no … Continue readingRiga – Art Nouveau District
Liverpool Girl Geeks, in partnership with Grrrl Power Liverpool, celebrated International Women’s Day by holding a Big Bad Feminist Quiz at Frederiks, Hope Street. a few of us went along and our team name “We tried” proved to be quite an apt one as we … Continue readingInternational Women’s Day – Big Bad Feminist Quiz Night
Some of the Lush crew out and about in Liverpool. After starting of in Café Nero, we paid a visit to the wonderful Kimos for ‘tea’ after getting some dosh back in Tesco’s (What to buy though? A box of Guylian of course) and then … Continue readingA Lush night out – Chocolates and Grapes
What to do on a really bitterly cold day at the start of March…? Well, being blessed, we have in Liverpool a host of wonderful galleries so I decided to visit 3 of them in 3 hours. Two are in the Albert Dock complex, the … Continue reading3 hours 3 Galleries – Liverpool
A café with lots of cakes and board games to play? Yup count me in on that! Margie and Jack asked us along to play a few games and we were still there 6 hours later! There was a great little place called Sugar and … Continue readingBoard not Bored at the Sugar and Dice
A fine day so we thought we’d pop along to the Speke/Garston coastal reserve. Some fascinating views across the rivers can be had.. and you get to see the planes coming in at the end of the airport’s runway. Afterwards we thought we try out … Continue readingMersey Coastal Reserve – Higson’s Brewery
Always nice to take a walk along the Mersey from Otterspool into the City.. There is always something of interest happening on the way. And of course once you are there lots of interesting building to take photos of!
A catch up with friends but not before a visit to the business district of Liverpool for some photos of the sights around Exchange Flags. A visit to the Spice Thai rounded the day off nicely
Not really following the format of Desert Island Disks, more inheritance tracks, I wanted to share with you some music that has been either poignant to me, put me in another place or that I have simply really liked.. It is by no means a … Continue readingDesert Island Disks – My version