A year of travel
Saturday, December 19th, 2009
This year I have seen more of Britain than ever before and next year I am intending to continue this way. Within a short train trip you can be in the most beautiful countryside or precious little town, learning British history and sampling delicious food.
I went to Wales twice: for Easter and Guy Fawkes night in November. I go to Wales very often as my mother-in-law lives there, every visit is very enjoyable and full of activities be it shopping car boot sales and antique shops, visiting wool mills or walking along the coastline. This year we went to Mwnt and Aberporth. Mwnt is a small beach near Cardigan surrounded by hills with some amazing flora and if you are lucky you can even spot a seal or a dolphin in the Irish Sea.
Aberporth is a small holiday town with great coastal walks and a waterfall on the beach.
Springtime saw me in Oxford discovering the Pit Rivers Museum and enjoying cream teas.
Summer was about Kent. I went to Rye which is truly stunning with its wiggly cobbled streets, harbour nature reserve and lobster dishes.
And to Whitstable – a little fishing village specialising in oysters and colorful beach houses.
The last trip of the year was to Leeds but if I am really lucky I could squeeze perhaps another one during the Christmas break.
I didn’t travel that much abroad, only Poland and Paris, both very enjoyable though.
There is no holiday plans for 2010 yet but I definitely want to visit Bath and Chawton inspired by the Jane Austen guide, Bexhill-on-Sea, Margate, Hastings and Dover, Salisbury and Stonehenge and some of Oxfordshire.
As for bigger holidays I really don’t know, of course there are places I’d like to see like Morocco, Croatia and some more exotic destinations, definitely Amsterdam (my friends’ infants are growing fast!) so fingers crossed something will come out of it.
