A while ago I had booked a couple of days annual leave, I had nothing particularly planned, but I always feel it is a pretty healthy thing to do i.e. just get yourself away from the world of work for a short break. One of the things on our 'bucket list' of stuff to do in London has been The Postal Museum, we have both wanted to go there but other stuff just comes up and it had been put…

Recently London has what is called an 'Open House Festival' which runs this year from 14th - 22nd September, but if you missed out this year it will be back again for 2025 I am sure with many and often different venues to visit, keep an eye open for it at the link above. In short, the Festival allows ordinary 'Joe Public' into houses, buildings, gardens over London's 33 boroughs that would normally be off bounds, but during September London…

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…