This is certainly a question I am asking myself a lot at the moment in terms of travel. Hopefully the road map out of lockdown has given us all a glimmer of hope and that come 17th May, we may be able to start travelling overseas again. But at this stage, we don’t know where will open up and indeed what requirements we will need to satisfy, before we can get off this island.
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Discovering Our Shores
As I write this, the timing of when we will be able to travel abroad this summer, without having to go into quarantine, is still uncertain. It may be as early as July. It may be August.
Read MoreHighlights, happenings and my favourite things of 2014
As the end of 2014 hurtles towards us I took some time to think back over the last year. Yet again it’s been one filled with many travels both home and away and a lot of fabulous memories. Here are just a few on the highlights, all travel related of course!
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Northumberland - a place of wide open spaces beneath big skies
I’d read about the wild and stunning Northumberland scenery and its rugged coastline, but always wondered whether it was worth a trip, especially as there didn’t seem anywhere decent to stay and I was never into Harry Potter, which was filmed up there.
So, when I heard about a medieval pub in a quaint village which was undergoing a smart makeover, I got the long weekend booked. And, I have to say, I’m so glad I did. Julian and I left asking why, as lovers of Great Britain’s big country (not the 80’s band incidentally), we hadn’t been before.
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