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Top 5 USA Road Trip Highlights

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December 19, 2015

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USA Sept 2013: Bye to New Hampshire, Hello to Vermont!

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A New Hampshire Fall Road Trip

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USA Sept 2013: Discovering Maine – Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park

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Sometimes travel doesn’t go quite to plan. Somet

Sometimes travel doesn’t go quite to plan. Sometimes, storm clouds gather despite the sunshine. Sometimes you’ll get caught in a torrential downpour whilst wearing a white dress. And sometimes the thunder and lightning will stop your plane from landing and throw your plans for getting home into chaos.

Which is why we’re currently on a Flixbus on our way from Bari to Rome, for an unscheduled one night stay in the Italian capital before - hopefully - a lunchtime Jet2 flight back to the UK tomorrow. It’s the first time in travelling that we’ve ever had a flight cancellation but we managed to put a plan of action together in the middle of a crisis. Despite Ryanair shrugging their shoulders and leaving us to our own devices, leaving hundreds sleeping on the airport floor 😡

Travel isn’t always sunshine and rainbows. Sometimes it - quite literally - doesn’t rain but it pours 🌩️☔️

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I have SO MANY PHOTOS of our Puglia trip to share

I have SO MANY PHOTOS of our Puglia trip to share with you that I don’t know where to start so I’ll just leave this Matera pic here to whet the appetite 💚🤍❤️

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Time to relax ☀️ Picking an Ostuni apartment w

Time to relax ☀️ Picking an Ostuni apartment with a pool was an excellent idea 💡

I look forward to sharing more about this incredible accommodation soon; for now we’re packing up for the next stage on our Apulian adventure 💚🤍❤️

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This is 46 🥳 The obligatory birthday photo - w

This is 46 🥳

The obligatory birthday photo - which these days always seems to take place in Italy 😉

We’re staying around our base in Ostuni today, a leisurely breakfast on our terrace, a stroll around town before the day trippers arrive (bloody tourists 😂) and maybe a few hours by the pool before food and drinks tonight to celebrate another trip around the sun 🥳

(PS - not sure why I even bothered packing hair straighteners - this heat means I have no choice but to embrace the curl 😂)

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I can finally tick Puglia off the travel wish list

I can finally tick Puglia off the travel wish list! Just look at the colour of that water 😍

I can confirm that it is NOT Mr Fletche on one of those paddle boards 😂

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Still can’t believe that this pretty little brea

Still can’t believe that this pretty little breakfast place is in Tyseley of all places. Tyseley. Best known for a railway museum, lots of furniture stores and not much else. But just a five minute drive from my childhood home - or a fifteen minute walk if you haven’t walked all the way there from Moseley the previous night - is @rustics_cafe, bringing breakfast and brunch to the people of Tyseley and Acocks Green. Yes, brunch. In Tyseley.

Thank you to @emmavictoriastokes for the suggestion 😍 it was the perfect hangover cure after a day at Moseley Folk Festival 😉

📍Rustics Cafe, 14 Shaftmoor Lane

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Happy September! Is Autumn here now? Did I blink a

Happy September! Is Autumn here now? Did I blink and miss summer?

I always take a bit of a blogging hiatus in August (apart from a couple of theatre reviews!) but I’m looking forward to our upcoming Italy trip and all the lovely blog posts and photos I can share with you 🇮🇹🍝🍕There’s probably still some Norway/Cruise blogs to finish too!

But A Brummie Home and Abroad turned 8 on August so there’s always lots of old posts to read even when new content is thin on the ground 😉 And it was my most successful month for blog views in a while - apparently a lot of people want to know what to do with grown up parents in London 😂

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We took a little trip down to London yesterday - h

We took a little trip down to London yesterday - hotels were ridiculously expensive so we decided to drive down, park in Walthamstow (bargain £3.50 - my best London tip!) and enjoy a stroll around the refurbished Battersea Power Station before a matinee in the West End 🎭

We’ll definitely revisit to take the lift to the top of the chimney but this time round we were happy to take a stroll around, glancing at the high end shops and enjoying a coffee at the wonderful outside area on the bank of the Thames.

It’s easy to get to Battersea on the Northern Line, even from Walthamstow (Victoria Line, change at Euston or Warren Street) - I love the way that the tube connects London so nowhere is ever impossible to get to.

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Is there a better view in Italy? I’ve missed sit

Is there a better view in Italy? I’ve missed sitting on a bustling piazza, aperitivo in hand, watching the sights and sounds of Italian life.

But it’s just 34 days til we’re back! The countdown is on to our Puglian getaway and I can’t wait to share our adventures on the heel of Italy’s boot with you ❤️🇮🇹

Which means I have 34 days to work out how to pack a week’s worth of outfits and toiletries in carry-on 🤦🏼‍♀️

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AD | What a lovely venue for a little trip back to

AD | What a lovely venue for a little trip back to the roaring twenties courtesy of @tetheredwits open air production of The Great Gatsby 🍸✨

We are enticed into the glamorous world of the mysterious Jay Gatsby, where lavish parties are thrown and the rich and beautiful of Long Island mingle. Not unlike Tamworth.

Tethered Wits Theatre Company are taking their dual production of Dr Doolittle and The Great Gatsby on a tour of some beautiful outdoor locations around the country - they are even at Birmingham’s Roundhouse tonight (29/7). Check out their website and social media for a full list of dates 🎭

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Eeyore dreams of one day meeting a real life donke

Eeyore dreams of one day meeting a real life donkey 🩶

If I’d stuffed him in my backpack that day he might have had his chance, but he preferred to stare gloomily out of the window instead 🩶

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In a rare stroke of weather good luck for the Flet

In a rare stroke of weather good luck for the Fletchers, we managed a little Peak District getaway on the only dry weekend in July. Raincoats were at the ready but we had the perfect weather for our 10 mile walk from our Hartington base to Milldale and back.

Summer in the UK eh? I’m watching with great sadness as food festivals and outdoor events are a washout. Maybe August will bring us some more sunshine?

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