Long Haul travel goes from fun to not very quickly Long Haul travel goes from fun to not very quickly. But there is nothing quite like the post flight shower. Would you agree? ✈️🛀🚿
🇬🇹Guatemala Places you need to visit in Gua 🇬🇹Guatemala

Places you need to visit in Guatemala: 

🧡Antigua
🧡Acatenango Volcano
🧡Lake Atitlan
🧡Semuc Champey
🧡El Paredon 

Is Guatemala on your bucket list?
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Had to repost this because my audio got removed on the original even though my voice is my voice and no one else’s so let’s hope it’s second time lucky 😅
2 week Costa Rica Itinerary 🍃✌🏽🦥🏄🏼

Day 1 – Landing in San Jose
Day 2-5 – Puerto Viejo
Day 5-7 – Tortuguero
Day 7-10 – La Fortuna
Day 10-12 – Manuel Antonio National Park
Day 12-14 – Dominical
9  things to NEED to do on your Barbados holiday🌴🇧🇧:

🐟 Oistins Fish Fry on a Friday Night
⚡️ Go for a drink and swim @thunder.bay.beach.bar 
🌅Watch the Sunrise
🐢Swim with Turtles
⛵️Boat cruise with @silvermoonbarbados 
🌮Sunset Dinner @seashed_barbados 
🐎Watch the racehorses at Pebbles Beach 
🌊 Walk along the Hastings Boardwalk 
🌅Watch the sunset
📸=🧡 📸=🧡
TRAVEL OFTEN AROUND YOUR 9-5⬇️ 🟠 Obvious c TRAVEL OFTEN AROUND YOUR 9-5⬇️

🟠 Obvious choice but make use of the weekends. Fly out on Friday night and home Sunday evening. Really good to squeeze in a mini city break. 

🟠 For longer holidays use the same method as above. Fly out on a Friday night and home the following Sunday. You can get almost 9 days away and only have to take 5 days off work.

🟠 Make use of your bank holidays. Tag on an extra day off around a bank holiday. For example around the Easter break. 

🟠If you are flying on weekdays fly out late evening and fly home early morning so you don’t have to take those flying days off work.

🟠 Work from your holiday. Commit to working one or two mornings whilst you are away. This can help in saving up a few half days when you get to the end of the year. However this is probably not worth it on shorter trips

🟠 If you are able to travel with work. Make a holiday out of that by tagging on a few days holiday after the work trip is over.

Do you have any other tips?
The cutest audio. I heard it on TikTok but I could The cutest audio. I heard it on TikTok but I couldn’t find it on here. It’s from @aftersunmovie ⭐️🎆🌞🌙☀️🌅

Not normally a quotes girly but I think this is so sweet 🥹
📍The SPACE - San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua 🇳🇮 @thespace.sjds 

This is the perfect hostel for travellers looking to unwind and relax (unless you are there on a Sunday when it’s part of the Sunday funday bar crawl 🙈)

🛌Dorm rooms start from £11 and Private from £50 🛌

🚖 It located a 6 minute drive and a 30 minute walk outside of the town. They do offer a free shuttle bus to town and from town everyday!
✌🏽This did well on TikTok so sharing it here ✌🏽This did well on TikTok so sharing it here 

🧡One thing I’m super grateful for is my supportive boyfriend no matter how ludacris my ideas.

✈️He loves to travel and explore new places but it’s definitely not on the same scale as me! 

💻 He also doesn’t have a job that gives him the same freedoms as mine does 

🌎I’ll be leaving him for a while  very shortly, and Ive talked about how I want to go away for a few months at some point in the future. 

❤️Despite the fact we miss each other he’ll always support my travels whether he can come with me or not.
BEST THINGS TO DO ON OMETEPE 🌋 📍Swim Ojo de BEST THINGS TO DO ON OMETEPE 🌋

📍Swim Ojo de Agua
📍Hike to San Ramon waterfall 
📍Sunset at Playa Mangos
📍Lunch at Santo Domingo
📍Hike Volcan Concecipon
📍Walk the sandbar at Punta Jesus
Have I sold you on Nicaragua yet? 🇳🇮🏄🏽 Have I sold you on Nicaragua yet? 🇳🇮🏄🏽‍♀️🌴😎
🇳🇮GUIDE TO LITTLE CORN ISLAND 🌽🏝️ G 🇳🇮GUIDE TO LITTLE CORN ISLAND 🌽🏝️

Getting There ➡️

✈️🛥️Plane and Boat - The best option for less time but a bigger budget and those who suffer from sea Sickness. 

🛩️Fly from Managua Airport to Big Corn Island (1.5 hours)
🚣🏼‍♀️Boat Taxi from Big Corn to Little Corn (30 minutes) 

💰Approximate total Cost for 1 way = £100-£110 

🚎⛵️Bus and Boat - The best option for more time but a smaller budget 

🚌Bus from Managua to Bluefields (7/8 hours) 
Ferry from Bluefields to Big Corn (6/7 hours) 
🚣🏼‍♀️Boat Taxi from Big Corn to Little Corn (30 minutes) 

💰Approximate total Cost for 1 way = £16-£20

🛌Where to stay 

😎Graces Cool Spot $
🤿Yemaya Reefs $$$

👙What to do 

🌴Walk around the whole Island 
😎Chill out on Otto Beach 
🤿Go Snorkelling 
🦈Go Scuba Diving 
🌮Have Tacos at Tranqillo Bar 
🍺Drink Victoria’s at Beach Bar 
🌅Watch the Sunset and Sun Rise 
💤RELAX 

Would you visit Little Corn?
10-Day Nicaragua Itinerary 🌴🌊🇳🇮 1 nig 10-Day Nicaragua Itinerary 🌴🌊🇳🇮

1 night - Leon 🌋
2 nights -San Juan Del Sur or Popoyo 🏄🏽‍♀️
2 nights - Ometepe 🌋
2 nights - Laguna de Apoyo/ Granada 🛶
3 nights - Little Corn Island 🌴🌽

📆For those of us who are limited to 25 days of holiday a year - 10 days in Nicaragua is TOTALLY doable. You’ll be on a tight schedule and will need to spend more on transport/taxis to get to places on time …. but it’s all worth it. ✈️

⏰If you have more time, I would say stretch to 14 days and up some of the stays to 3 nights. This will give you a chance to relax in each location. 💤

Full-time travel/time freedom is the goal but for now, I’m grateful that I get to experience snippets of these beautiful countries! 

Would you visit Nicaragua for 10 days?
My toxic trait is wanting to be everywhere doing e My toxic trait is wanting to be everywhere doing everything all at the same time ✈️🌍🌴🌅
Day 8&9 - Nicaragua 🇳🇮 Day 8 📆 🤿We p Day 8&9 - Nicaragua 🇳🇮

Day 8 📆

🤿We paid $20 each to go on a snorkelling tour with with our guesthouse (Graces Cool Spot) 

🦈It was a 2 hour trip and we got to see lots of nurse sharks, plus others saw turtles, stingrays and lobsters which I missed

🚤Later that afternoon we had to leave Little Corn 😫. We were planning to leave the next day but they weren’t going to be running the boats to Big Corn due to the wind….. so if we didn’t leave we would have missed our flight. 

⚓️Something to be aware of if you’re travelling to the corn island’s

Day 9 📆

✈️We flew from Big Corn Island back to the main land early in the morning. 

🚕We then got picked up from the airport and we decided to go back to Laguna de Apoyo and stay @paradisonicaragua 

🍺 We spent our last day drinking turbo shandy’s and swimming in the lake (which was a lot warmer than we expected)
🌎Favourite places in Central America 🧡I’ 🌎Favourite places in Central America 

🧡I’m totally in love with Central America and I haven’t even scratched the surface yet (more countries to visit and more places to visit where I’ve already been) 

🌎Whilst I find it difficult to say where my favourite place is because they are all so different, here are some of my favourite places in each country I’ve been to so far:

Mexico 🇲🇽

🌮Valladolid 
🏝️Isla Holbox 

Guatemala 🇬🇹

🌋Antigua (+ Acatenango Volcano hike) 
🌊Lake Atitlan 

Costa Rica 🇨🇷

🦥Puerto Viejo
🏄🏽‍♀️Dominical 
🍃La fortuna purely for @arenal.lodge 

Nicaragua 🇳🇮

🌋Ometepe
🌽Little Corn Island

Still have so many places to visit in these countries but these are my fave so far 🧡
Day 7 - Nicaragua 🇳🇮🏝️ Today was a ver Day 7 - Nicaragua 🇳🇮🏝️

Today was a very chill day 😎

🍳We woke up for some brekfast and then headed off to explore the island. 

🚶🏽‍♀️We headed north of our hotel at Graces cool spot and walked as far around the island as we could, taking in all the beautiful views along the way. 

🌴The most popular beach on the island is Otto beach and we were going to stop here but the bar was shut and after all the walking we were super hungry. 

🍃We decided to walk through the island and into the main “town”. 

🎶We stopped off at a reggae bar  called “Beach Bar” for lunch and stayed there for ages drinking and catching some sun and going for dips to cool off. 

🌮We then headed back to get read for Tacos and Triva night at Tranquilo cafe. The tacos were AMAZING but our trivia was terrible. We came last 😅

One of my favourite days of the trip!
Day 6 - Nicaragua 🇳🇮 ✈️Today we had to Day 6 - Nicaragua 🇳🇮 

✈️Today we had to wake up super early to catch our flight to the Corn islands.

🚕We headed from Leon to Managua airport which was approx 2 hours drive (of course we used our fave driver David) 

🔖We checked in for our flight which was very easy  they give you a baggage receipt  which you must keep hold of as they check it the other end when collecting your luggage. 

🛩️💵The flights were roughly $111 one way with La Costena airlines (they are not on Skyscanner so we had to  book directly) 

💰We then had to pay a $2 tourist tax to board the flight 

🛫The flight was totally fine (I was a tad nervous but had no need to be. 

🚎The flight kind of works like a bus which was so new to me. There are no assigned seats so you just pick whatever is free. 

💙It first lands Bluefields airport where it lets passengers off and more people on. If you’re flying to Big Corn you just stay on the plane. 

⏰In total it was about 1.5 hours 

🚖Once we landed in Big Corn we had to catch a taxi to the ferry port. This cost us $1 per person 

💰Once we got there we then had to pay ANOTHER tourist tax for around $1 to enter the port. 

⛴️We then waited for our ferry to little corn. There are only 2 ferries a day to Little Corn 10am ($20) and 4:30pm ($10). Take a look at this last picture for more info on this. 

🏨Once we arrived we were greeted by someone from our guesthouse ( Graces Cool Spot) at the port and he walked us to the hotel. 

🍹Once we checked in we got showered up and had a little explore. We then spent the evening at at tranquilio cafe drinking cocktails with some lovely humans that we met at our guesthouse. 

Picture locations 📸
📸Big Corn Island Ferry Port
📸Big Corn Island Airport
📸Graces Cool Spot
📸Tranquilo Cafe
📸Little Corn
Graces Cool Spot- Little Corn Island 🇳🇮🌽🏝️

I did not want to leave. If you’re visiting Nicaragua, Little Corn is a MUST!
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City Breaks, Road Trips, UK · September 13, 2020

How to spend a weekend in Bradford-On-Avon

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The Cotswolds area of the UK is one of the most stunning locations in England. It’s history, architecture, nature and all-round magical feel is what makes it one of the most popular places to visit in the UK. The Cotswolds region branches out over 5 different counties in England.

Located just a stone’s throw from the City of Bath, Bradford-on-Avon is a beautiful, quintessentially British market town, found on the edge of the Wiltshire Cotswolds.

Like many of the towns you will find in the Cotswolds, Bradford-On-Avon has a tranquil river winding through the heart of the town (as you might guess from the name the River Avon runs through here).

The towns history dates back to Roman times, but most of the architecture you will find here is from the 17th century when the town expanded due to a boom in the textile industry. Most of the buildings that line the river are houses, hotels and bars but these were all once woollen mills.

Bradford-On-Avon is a fairly small town so if you are after a slow and relaxing weekend, then read on to find out my top tips and recommendations for spending your weekend here.

Bradford-On-Avon

When is the best time to visit Bradford-On-Avon?

Bradford-on-Avon is the kind of town you can visit no matter what the season. Whether you want to take a summer bike ride and a barge boat trip along the canal or have a cosy winter break sat by the fire and surrounded by fairy lights then there is something for you.

We took our trip in August and in classic British style, it was a drizzly weekend that made us feel more like we were in October than August. This didn’t faze us as we were after a cosy weekend, so the weather was quite fitting.

What is the best way to get to Bradford-On-Avon?

There are 3 main ways to get to Bradford-On-Avon these are:

Car: This is probably the easiest and most economical way to get to Bradford-On-Avon. If you are driving here from the London area or outskirts it will take you roughly 2.5 hours.

Train: You can get to Bradford-On-Avon from Paddington Station in under 2 hours. Unfortunately, you can’t get a train directly here you will have to stop off at Bath Spa station and then take the 10-minute train journey to Bradford-On-Avon station.

Coach: Getting the coach from London Victoria Coach Station to Bradford-On-Avon will take you around 3 hours. Similarly, to the train, you cannot get dropped directly to Bradford-On-Avon town centre. You can either go to Bath and get the train or an Uber or alternatively, you can get the coach to the town of Box and again get a train, bus or Uber to Bradford-On-Avon town centre.

Bradford-On-Avon

What is the best way to see Bradford-On-Avon?

The town of Bradford-On-Avon is quite small so the best way to explore Bradford-On-Avon is on either foot or bicycle. If you don’t have a bicycle of your own you can get information on where to hire one from here. 

Where to stay in Bradford-On-Avon?

Before most of my trips, I always scan through the location hashtag on Instagram to get some inspiration of what to do and where to stay. I stumbled across Widbrook Grange during this search and I’m SO glad I did.

Widbrook Grange is slightly outside of the main town and will take you either a 20-minute walk or a 4-minute drive.

Located amongst 11 acres of the Wiltshire countryside, Widbrook Grange is a Georgian country house that’s been converted into a small boutique hotel with just 19 rooms. Not only are the interiors in this place extremely aesthetically pleasing but the hotel is fully equipped with a gym, swimming pool, an amazing restaurant and (my favourite) a dedicated Gin bar! You can also treat yourself to a game of giant Jenga or chess in their onsite gardens. 

Widbrook Grange
Widbrook Grange
Widbrook Grange

I also can’t forget to mention how delicious the breakfast here is. This is included in your booking and you can choose from a full English, salmon and eggs, granola, berries and yoghurt and more! The portions are generous, and this really sets you up for a day of exploring.  

Finally, to top this place off the service here is amazing and all the staff are so attentive

Widbrook Grange
Widbrook Grange

Budgeting for Bradford-On-Avon

Prices in Bradford-On-Avon are similar to that of London and most of the south of England. Expect to pay around £5 for a pint, £6+ for a glass of wine or prosecco and around £10-£15 for a single dish.

Best places to eat and drink in Bradford-On-Avon

Widbrook Grange: As I mentioned earlier Widbrook Grange has an amazing onsite restaurant which is open to non-guests as well. If you are looking for hearty farmhouse cuisine and a list Gin’s to choose from that is the size of your arm, then this is the best place to come.

Boat House: Just a 5-minute walk from Widbrook Grange the Boat House is a great place to enjoy some food with a view as this restaurant looks out onto the Bradford-On-Avon Marina.

The Lock Inn Cafe: One of the most highly rated restaurants in Bradford-On-Avon. Not only is the food loved by many but they are in an ideal location, situated right next to the Kennet & Avon Canal; which makes for some great beer garden drinking during the summer months.

The Dandy Lion Pub: Located in the centre of Bradford-On-Avon The Dandy Lion is the perfect place to take a break from your exploring and enjoy a spot of lunch.

The Bridge Tea Rooms: Steeped in character and history with a building dating back to 1502, the Bridge Team Rooms has twice been voted the best tearoom in the UK. After visiting here and trying out some of their famous tea and scones for myself I can completely understand why. I recommend you put this place at the top of your foodie list when in Bradford-On-Avon.

Bradford-On-Avon
Bradford-On-Avon

Best things to do in Bradford-On-Avon

As I mention before Bradford-On-Avon is a small town, so if you only wanted to come here for the day without staying then it’s definitely possible. See my recommendations below.

Tithe Barn 

Dated back to 1330 Tithe Barn is one of the largest medieval barns in England.

The Shambles 

A small passage in the centre of town lined with flowers, bunting and coffee shops. What more could you want?

Bradford-On-Avon

Town Bridge

If you google Bradford-On-Avon you will most likely be presented with many images of this bridge. Consisting of 9 arches and decorated with a small domed chapel,this is probably the most iconic part of the town.

Bradford-On-Avon
Bradford-On-Avon

Mckeever Footbridge

Named after the 2012 Olympic Gold Medallist Ed Mckeever. The Meckeever Footbridge is a great place to stop and get some snaps of the river.

Coppice Hill Road

If you want to see some stereotypical Cotswold houses with colourful front doors and climbing rose bushes then Coppice Hill is the street to visit (this is directly next to The Shambles).

Bradford-On-Avon
Bradford-On-Avon

St Margaret’s Hill

Climb up St Margaret’s hill to get a panoramic view of the town. Once you get to the top of the hill you will need to walk left for about 100m to get the best view.

Bradford-On-Avon

Wallington Hall

Wallington Hall is not a place you could or would want to go inside and visit (it is just an empty hall) however I loved the outside architecture of the building, so I had to pop this on the list.

Bradford-On-Avon

Holy Trinity Church 

Explore the beautiful church grounds of Holy Trinity Church. If like me and you are fascinated with gravestones that are over 100’s of years old then this is the best place to come.

Bradford-On-Avon
Bradford-On-Avon

Bradford-On-Avon Wharf

Head here to do a canal boat tour of the Kennet & Avon Canal.

Ilford Manor Estate

Visit the award-winning Ilford Manor Gardens which was home to the set of “The Secret Garden” starring Julie Walters and Colin Firth. (Currently temporarily closed due to COVID due to reopen April 2021).

River Avon and Kennet & Avon Canal walk

Take a leisurely stroll along the canal. There are several routes you can take so click here to find out more. 

Bradford-On-Avon

How accessible is Bradford-On-Avon?

To find out about accessible routes in Bradford-On-Avon visit this page for further information or feel free to email: tourism@bradfordonavontowncouncil.gov.uk

If you are looking for more UK based trips make sure you check out my post on my favourite trips from London or my 4-day guide to Cornwall.


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