Looking for a winter weekend excursion? Well an hour’s train ride from London gets to you Bexhill-on-Sea, home to the De La Warr Pavilion – a perfect day trip! Seagulls taking advantage of the strong winds to soar above the King George V Colonnade. I went with a friend who was running the Poppy Half…
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Half Hitch Gin Tasting
New Year New Gin! The Half Hitch Gin tasting at The Oliver Conquest actually happened before Christmas, but its been so busy so I didn’t get a chance to post about it before now… Now I’m super excited about Half Hitch as it combines two of my passions – gin and Camden! Its made by…
Festive Bath
Festive Bath – no I don’t mean a nice long soak in scented water, but rather the City!! Now that the Christmas Market is all packed up what can you do in Bath? Well the sales have now started and if like us you flag from festive season shopping I’ve found the solution to rejuvenate…
Boutique brewing in Walthamstow
My friends based in Walthamstow have been telling me for ages about a little industrial estate where a brewery and a gin palace sit opposite each other. So when I headed up there to see them a few weeks ago we made it to the Ravenswood Industrial Estate and the Wild Card Brewery & Mother’s Ruin: …
Gin tasting @ Bath Christmas market!
Last week was the inaugral Hughes’ parent Christmas party in Bath, and it coincided with the last weekend of the Bath Christmas Market. Those of you who follow me on twitter will have seen the numerous tweets and photos from the weekend, but for everyone else here it is: Me, holding my invisible champagne glass, outside…
Christmas Market @ Tower Bridge
Some of you may know that I have a new job working for EY based in More London. The nearest tube is London Bridge (for me on the Northern line anyway!) and from the office I have a great view of Tower Bridge and the Tower of London in one direction, HMS Belfast and the city…
Groupon Christmas Grotto
Laura, my flatmate and I were lucky enough to be invited to the Groupon Christmas grotto, which properly kicked off the Christmas feeling! Based in Batemen Street Soho it was the perfect stop on the way home to pop in, drink some mulled wine and see some demonstrations of activities you can book through Groupon……
Double whammy gin tasting!
November was the Oliver Conquest’s 4th birthday so it seemed fitting to have back to back gin tastings! Gin Club with a Reading Problem was well represented at both. November’s gin of the month was Ferdinand Saar and Eric had come all the way over from Germany for the tasting. Also up was one of Gin…
LCW volunteer reunion!
I’ve remained in contact with a few of the people I met whilst volunteering at London Cocktail Week – always useful to know people in bars, to get in, for free drinks etc… And we decided to meet up for some drinks, which quickly turned into a cocktail crawl in East London! We started out…
Thermae Bath Spa
Last time I was up in Bath visiting the family I wrote about the Roman Baths this time it was all about treating ourselves in the spa 🙂 You’re not allowed to take photos in the Spa, so all the pics are from the Thermae Spa website Disclaimer over – what did we do?! As…