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The Camino de Santiago
I walk a ‘leg’ of the Camino de Santiago every year with my parish (CPP Weybridge). This year we walked approx 23 kilometres per day over 6 days between Burgos and Sahagun in northern Spain. We’ll eventually make it to Santiago de Compostela!! Check out these photos that I took along the way….. the walk […]
The Importance Of A Good Mattress
An old Irish advert once advised that you should ‘Put your money in a good mattress’. The illustration alongside it was of a woman stuffing a wodge of bank notes into her mattress for safe-keeping. That advert always made me giggle. The truth of the matter is that a good mattress is invaluable to our […]
Nuala Recommends: Obsessions Jewellers
Nuala Recommends: Obsessions Jewellers If you haven’t yet discovered Obsessions Jewellers in Weybridge, you’re in for a real treat. Not only does Matt Carroll design his own beautiful pieces, but if you have any old jewellery or have inherited jewellery that is sentimental but dated and you’re not sure what to do with it? – […]
Autumn Walks In Surrey
We are so spoiled here in Weybridge when you consider our proximity not only to London but also to the southern home counties that surround our great city: Berkshire, Hampshire, Kent and Sussex. These counties, with their rolling hills and picturesque rural towns, are a perfect reflection of England’s ‘green and pleasant land’. Surrey Hills […]
April House Brown Bread
When I was growing up in Ireland my mother used to bake Irish Soda Bread every day- it was a ritual and very much part of family life. When I opened April House I really wanted to offer a taste of that Irish tradition to my guests. The bread I bake every day is a […]
5 Historic places to visit in Surrey
1. Painshill Park Location: Portsmouth Rd, Cobham KT11 1JE The Alice in wonderland in Surrey! Painshill 18th century landscape garden was created between 1738 and 1773, by the Hon. Charles Hamilton. Born in Dublin in 1704, Hamilton, the ninth son and 14th child of the Sixth Earl of Abercorn, embarked on two Grand Tours across […]