A few years ago Mrs Akin and her 'bestie' went to a gin tasting festival at Tobacco Dock in London's East End, not being a big gin fan I accompanied them to their destination and wandered on further to parts of London I hadn't visited to explore and check out a few pubs. I was specifically interested in Cable Street. The day itself was steaming, humid and hot, I wandered up to Cable Street and onto a small park with…

Well, moving away from London with this post to a City in the UK I haven't visited yet! We were up around that way a year or so ago staying in Chester which was a lovely place to stay and did and a few trips into places such as Shrewsbury, again another lovely experience. We were due to go to Wales and visit Snowdonia National Park but sadly due to the whole COVID thing it got cancelled. Anyway with a…

Well, this post kicks off yet another month (my, don't they just fly by!) we are already past halfway through another year and the longest day of the year has been and gone so prep up for the evenings beginning to draw in quicker! For this post I thought I'd have a revisit of an area and building I visited originally last year, but I took another trip back again recently, so without further ado.... If Spy Rings, Agatha Christie…

Again not so much of a physical but more of a mental journey for this post. When I used to work for a much smaller company than I do now, when you were allowed to play YouTube videos whilst working (obviously with earphones in!) we used to enjoy Friday's, basically a day when my boss and I used to tune into just reggae sounds and swap the sounds we were listening to, we had love for so much of it…

So, on a recent week off I took a little trip back from whence I was born, it was not so much a choice thing really as the car needed a visit to the garage for some fixing to the front suspension (not a cheap job!). Thing is I have always taken my cars to the same garage mostly because I trust the guys there and they always seem to do a good job…and I guess I am just a…