The Lion Hotel
Travel Blogs from Dulverton
Floods in the UK
... the UK will experience severe flooding more frequently as climate change takes hold. The floods have severely disrupted people's lives and will cost the economy millions of pounds – highlighting the foolishness of the chancellor's insistence in only talking about the costs of tackling climate change. The UK government must stop dragging its feet on decarbonising our economy and show global ...
Off to Heathrow for a flight down south
... it Wetherspoons indulging in our first holiday drink. Looks like the blog may be short lived as the bag with all the chargers in it, does not appear to have one for the iPad. Panic over, found myself in the Dixon travel shop and they had just what I've always wanted, a world traveler iPad charging pack for a mere £35, rather pleased I didn't forget anything that would have been expensive. Through screening and find a pleasant bar, terminal four is much nicer than ...
West country rellie-bashing
The west country of England is so different from all the other parts of the UK we've seen so far. But more importantly, staying with our family has been really awesome! When we woke up on our first day in Tanzie and Rich's house in Tivington Mum, James and I ate and then went out for a walk up over the hill for a view down the valley. We hiked up through the woods in got our feet nice and muddy. It surprisingly wasn't raining so we took advantage of the nice ...
Reunited cousin love!
We met Uncle David (Poppy's brother) at the train station in Bristol and rode the train with him to Taunton, where we got in his car and drove to his house and met his partner, Pru. We had a drink there and then drove to Tanzie and Rich's house for a dinner party!! (Tanzie is Uncle David's daughter, Mum's cousin, Rich is her ...
Back home again
So leisurely start to the day with repacking for the journey and a late breakfast. We were picked up on time at 12 and headed for the airport where we checked in with a slight sweat; my case was bang on 23kgs (the limit) Gill's came in at 26.5 kgs but no one said anything , so we didn't either. Good on time flight back with a surprisingly decent meal and free drinks, a novelty in this age. We arrived back at Heathrow on time, long walk in T5 but the ...