Walking to The Halo Sculpture, Lancashire

Walking up to The Halo sculpture involves a short but steep exhilarating walk that packs a punch and features a weird and wonderful sculpture with a superb panoramic view. If you’re visiting the Rossendale valley in Lancashire, or somewhere nearby, I can highly recommend you stop off in Haslingden and check out its quirky flying saucer called The Halo…

Perge, Aspendos and Kursunlu: Turkey

In the wake of the recent attacks in Istanbul, (I originally wrote this is July 2016) I can’t help but reminisce on the time I spent in Turkey 10 years ago; in particular: a fantastically cultural day out near Antalya to Perge, Aspendos and Kursunlu. Now this was before ownership of a digital camera, so I had to hunt…

Exploring Hartlepool and County Durham

I regularly visit the north east coast of England as my husband’s family hails from the coastal town of Hartlepool. Despite countless trips, I rarely explore much of the area as we tend to spend most of our time catching up with family and friends that still live there. However, one such trip in 2016, we decided to spend…